skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No one actually has to do anything. Virtue comes from mere words or even from silently held beliefs. There was a time in the distant past when people thought you could only be virtuous by doing things: by helping the blind man across the road; looking after your elderly parents instead of dumping them in a home; staying in a not-wholly-perfect marriage for the sake of the children. These things involve effort and self-sacrifice. That sounds hard! Much more convenient to achieve virtue by expressing hatred of those who think the health service could be improved by introducing competition.

Here's an experiment - the next time you're out (if you still do that), take a look around and see how many people are wearing masks. Of that sample, how many of them have long hair?

The thing that typifies white liberals most to me is their desire to be adorned with an aura of virtue while still doing the absolute bare minimum in order to be seen as such. Conspicuous displays such as mask wearing are low-effort, low-cost, require little to no compromise or change in one's lifestyle and behavior, and signal to fellow whites or allied tribespeople that you are on the same side.

But when it comes to making an actual sacrifice - not even a significant one, I would posit! - suddenly all those lambasting the "alt right" are nowhere to be found. Short hair, fades, crew cuts abound - what happened? Weren't we just shaming our neighbors on social media for wanting to get haircuts? For having outdoor barbecues in the park? Where were you, when society called for your sacrifice?

At the barber's, it seems.

Now think - if there are this many people willing to skirt quarantine and stay-at-home orders while making outward displays of conformity... how many more of these self-proclaimed progressives actually secretly harbor racist beliefs while still reciting the common refrains of diversity and inclusion?

I've developed tactics for unmasking the fakers and pretend-quarantiners. I am working to develop social technologies to unmask the pretend anti-racists now.
Racial/cultural/nationality discrimination isn't identical to LGBT discrimination.
I don't want to return my TV, I want to sue them for the theft of my functional TV and replacement with a superficially similar but vastly inferior alternative.
I think that statement needs the caveat that that thread discussed with the conclusion that it's a myth (which as far as I can tell originated on HN), and that there was one single post on Samsung support about a TV connecting to a neighbour's WiFi, which unless someone can reproduce I think we have to assume was their kids or guests doing at this point.
Doesn’t seem much more complicated to pump gas from the tanker truck into the gas station tanks. Just bigger hoses and a bit longer.
Any TV can be a dumb TV if you don’t connect it to the network.

This is a completely solvable problem; spend an extra $20, get a Chromecast, and never deal with this again.
"I'm clearly a team player because I kept this short for you."
How long would it take to sequence the genome of an individual human instead of an immortal human cell line?
I was impressed with the thinking about value-per-dollar that went into a Vizio TV that we got from a friend. For instance instead of having six HDMI ports you don't need (or wouldn't need if they didn't burn out so quickly) like you'd have on a Sony or a Samsung there are just two HDMI ports.

I appreciate thin TVs that mount on the wall but the Vizio is a bit thicker and has room for a quality set of speakers that, in my opinion, outperform a Denon soundbar we have kicking around the house.

My take is that from one end to another end somebody thought carefully about what features to put in that would make the TV valuable to users.
I always wonder about these things; at least dozens – if not hundreds – of people were involved developing this: managers, designers, programmers, marketing, that sales guy with his ridiculous "features that benefit viewers" piece of spin, etc.

And no one seemed to have thought "wait, I'm being a complete cunt here – every user who will have this 'feature' inflicted upon will hate it!"

Sorry-but-not-sorry for the strong language, but I've taken to hold people individually responsible for this kind of stuff. Excepting people in social/financial circumstances where they don't really have a choice, if you're doing this kind of stuff then you're just being a gigantic twat. These people are all fairly well paid, so none of this "just doing muh job" nonsense.

I just don't understand how people can do this kind of thing – I'm not surprised because I've seen it many times before, I just don't understand it.
It's the same with smart phones and laptops too. The first feature that seems to have 'worse' specs too is the screen (terrible color gamut and accuracy, only 1080, IPS instead of one of the OLED varieties).
If at least there was a company selling 'modular' TVs. Want a better processor? Here, switch this component and you're good to go, no need to buy a whole new TV. Want more HDMI inputs? Here are the modules you'll need. Want a LCD screen instead of an OLED one? We got you covered.

Things like this new ad "trend" makes you think the "smart" in "smart TV" was just a reference to their marketing ploy.
Jailbreaking a device doesn’t void its warranty in many/most places; consumer protection laws override those illegal warranty lines that say otherwise. If you ever have real trouble getting something fixed on your device just reset it to a non-jailbroken stare and they won’t know the software was ever modified.
Does anybody know a tool for tunneling/reverse tunneling that isn't SSH since SSH is doing TCP over TCP and is slow?
I had high hopes for Vizio. We have owned three of them. The latest one, purchased a few years back, was $2,000 US. I did not buy their lowest price model.

Well, the thing is buggy as hell. It can't connect to the network (wired or WiFi) several times per month. Cycling power does not fix it. The only reliable solution I found is to unplug the ethernet cable, and plug it back in.

When it does come back, it will do weird things. For example, when you last turned it off the volume was set to 7 (out of 100). If you have to the thing to get it to connect to the network it will, every few times, blast you at 100% volume even though the volume bar says 5, 7, 15, whatever. You have to jump on the remote and click it down. Just one click at it is back to normal volume.

And then there's all the garbage on the home screen. I want none of it. I just want the few services we are subscribed to and icons for the input connected to the external PC, playstation and WII. That's it. Just a handful of icons would do. Instead, my $2,000 bought me a circus act every single time I turn on the TV.

I really want to not buy a Vizio ever again. And then you realize they are all the same. Not sure what to do other than, as they say in the movies, "science the shit out of it" and design a full replacement main board for the thing and toss their electronics and software in the trash.
Virtue signalling is the silliest criticism I've heard of.

It boils down to saying something is good because it's critics only dislike it because it makes them look good to criticise it.

There's no affirmative arguments for the thing in question, and any argument about virtue signalling just says that society considers the alternative virtuous - an argument against your non-virtuous opinions
That's interesting. "Producers who aren’t also engineers, and as such, don’t have the slightest fucking idea what they’re doing in a studio, besides talking all the time. Historically, the progression of effort required to become a producer went like this: Go to college, get an EE degree. Get a job as an assistant at a studio. Eventually become a second engineer. Learn the job and become an engineer. Do that for a few years, then you can try your hand at producing. Now, all that’s required to be a full-fledged “producer” is the gall it takes to claim to be one."

Why does a record producer or recording engineer need an EE degree? They might need to repair a console, I guess, but they aren't going to design one from scratch.
Digital TVs are driven by software and don't really have a "dumb" mode. You only get the options that the software permits you. In at least one case I've seen, the TV remote doesn't work if you don't connect the TV to the Internet and activate it, so you can't select inputs.

I actually bought a Vizio TV years ago on the basis that it was sold with extremely unobtrusive software -- it had Chromecast support and a configuration/remote app you could put on your phone, but otherwise it did what you told it to do and stayed out of your way. They actually released a firmware upgrade six months or so later that added a crappy smart TV interface that has gotten increasingly crappy and intrusive over the years. It was infuriating. I had no way to opt out.
It’s downvoted because it’s wrong; It’s a myth. There is no “legal fiduciary duty” to maximize profits. There is a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, but only in the sense of not wanting to be voted off the board and possibly sued if you mislead them. If the whole board agrees on your plan to bank the company on a possible suicide move, you’re fine.
No they really aren’t, this is a common but silly misconception. Managers have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders but there’s a huge amount of latitude in what that means with the only real bright line rules being things like “don’t improperly enrich yourself with company assets”.

If managers want to sell tvs without ads, they absolutely can. If the board (which represents the shareholders) disagrees with that decision, they can fire the managers, but there’s no “law” requiring them to chase profits. That really lets normal greedy bullshit off the hook too easily - laws don’t cause anti consumer behavior, garden variety assholes do because it makes them more money.
> Not sure why this is downvoted. publicly traded companies are legally required to go for maximum profit for their shareholders.

This stupid meme needs to die. The management of companies has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders. That does not imply any legal requirement to maximize profit.
Around like the credits or transition between shows?

Certainly never seen that just mid broadcast on a TV show
I never said you couldn't sue them.

Those of us who would rather not waste the kind of time and money needed to sue an electronics manufacturer would prefer a return option instead.
Any sufficiently large platform eventually attracts every kind of person.

That's why I refuse to consider big platforms "a community": At best, they're platforms on which many communities can form, but anyone trying to tell you a million people can be in one community is either an incompetent marketer, extraordinarily naïve, or, perhaps, attempting to tar a huge number of different communities with the bad actions of a single community, or even a subset of a single community. Ask yourself: If someone told you that Manhattan was Neo-Nazi because someone once saw a swastika flag flying from an apartment window, would you take the claim at face value?
There are efforts to study multivariate, nonlinear biomarkers, especially with the advent of deeper molecular profiling (i.e. transcriptome, proteome).
Not sure what this is called but, does this support when

the server needs to connect to the client (server has ports open but the client doesn't), so the client connects to the server and then the connection is like... flipped? flippable?

basically when I try to connect to 127.0.0.1:4500 as the server, I want it to go to the client (which has a bound server listening on a socket, but is closed port/firewall wise). Is this what "reverse tunneling" is?
I’m skeptical. Several times in my career I’ve traced back “it’s a legal restriction” and found that it was not in fact a legal restriction. It was a mutated and distorted version of a legal restriction passed down a game of telephone, in some cases stretching back years.
If you had read the article, you would have at least addressed their point that many people make ostentatious displays of virtue without actually doing a damn thing in the real world.

It's the attempt to paint one's self with good deeds, without actually having done any, that is problematic.

Perhaps you are experiencing white fragility from your worldview being questioned?
Why do you think anyone in that chain has the power to stop it? Every competitor in the consumer TV market is doing ads somewhere in their smart TV UI; even if none of the underlings want to make this feature, the executives were probably the ones to give the order. These people could leave the company but even in the current competitive labor market, it isn’t hard to find someone willing to compromise their moral code for the position.
Fwiw, my LG and Samsung TVs both allow updates via thumb drive.

Neither TV has ever been allowed on a network.
Yes, I thought about both possibilities (discrimination and insecurity) but I want to remain positive and not attribute ulterior motives to the interviewer. It was an ironic experience though because, I believe, had my code been a bit slower I would have had a better shot at the interview.
As a mid level computer programer working under policy of work from office at least few days even at peak of covid I see that company is happy when employees are more available remotely for work issues after hours. But when it comes to normal work hours remotely there is lot of hedging mainly because with so many leaving they do not want anger by explicit calls on this.

So they like to save all the money by utilizing benefits of online resources. Never flying for mid level employees for any face to face meeting, get togethers etc. No tech conferences, no in-person training and so on. At the same time office is best way to collaborate with team distributed over 4 cities. Doing 5 webex sessions in a day apparently require office to do quality work.

Afaik many people who either see best intention or that management is listening their remote work demands are deluding themselves. Management are simply waiting to get great employee churn over so they can announce everyone get back to office if they want to keep their jobs.
This was already discussed on Reddit and made it to the front page today. Lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/tuiqs5/w...
I'm pretty sure, in the USA, the FCC and other agencies would frown on a banner ad that covers up the EAS (Emergency Alert System) crawl.

Imagine a hearing impaired person not seeing a message that a tornado is approaching their immediate area.

Hopefully it's just a poor attempt at an April Fool's joke, and not real.
Will have to listen through good headphones tomorrow. My initial impression is also that I like Albini's version more, but I understand why the song became famous from the final mix.

Albini's does lack that separation that differentiated the remixed songs from contemporary and then recent punk and "always-on" grudge imho.
Nobody ever asks programmers to provide legal opinions.

On the other hand, understanding formal logic is of practical value in the legal industry; I was thinking of building searches to find electronic documents which is a real thing that (clueless) people (try to) do. Seems to me like it could potentially be very high stakes, at least in hindsight if you screw it up.

I don't know if boolean logic is or used to be part of a law school curriculum. It just seems to me a bit surprising if it isn't.
When your ability to eat, maintain shelter and healthcare, and what society considers your worth as an individual is, I’d linked you your continued employment you don’t speak out. Many people cannot afford to be fired or resign without another job lined up. Capitalism has made activism unaffordable.
> These people are all fairly well paid, so none of this "just doing muh job" nonsense.

The most logical explanation I can come up with is that there are compensation incentives tied to financial performance (or even just project completion), and this sort of thing will probably boost the financials enough to trigger those payouts. When enough money's on the line, I'm sure it's easy to wave away any feelings about the end user.
There is a band from Pasadena, California called Ozma. Way back in the day (1999), they released an album called “Songs of Audible Trucks and Cars” [0] via MP3.com. I later found out that they really wanted the title to be “Songs of Inaudible Trucks and Cars” [1], but MP3.com had a character limit on album titles, so they had to shorten it

[0] https://www.discogs.com/release/8369169-Ozma-Songs-Of-Audibl...

[1] https://www.discogs.com/release/15809071-Ozma-Songs-Of-Inaud...
i believe you mean wireguard and not wireshark
I recall reading the Samsung TVs need to have an internet connection before you can use them for the first time. I don't have a reference..
Metaculus Launches ProblyMail
So does this show ads if you hook up a device over HDMI? Or is it only if you use it as a 'smart' TV?
I hope the additional weaknesses were disclosed to Viasat ahead of the publication.
Yup, look at how popular the Oculus Quest is at $300 and how Facebook flashes ads in them.
Presenting my new album: SQL Injection'); DROP TABLE Artists;--
> 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.

Economics will ultimately do this for you. As the economy deteriorates, the rate of return on rental properties will plunge, forcing sales by over-leveraged "investors."
All we can really be sure of is that they are at least 2500 years old. But we know at least some of the white facing stonework was done about then, because we have (!) actual documents from a foreman.

There is a very great deal we still don't know about Egyptian stonework, and how it was done, that historians are aggressively not interested in discussing. Anyway what they insist was done is physically impossible. So, there is plenty left for our grandchildren still to puzzle out.

The Egyptians loved cutting tunnels, and new tech will help us locate the miles of still unexplored tunnels crisscrossing the sites.
I think for a certain subset of users it was definitely the heir to livejournal
Wow. I'm curious to know how Inscape (the scanning tech mentioned here) is able to circumvent HDCP in this case. Do they have special access ?
I can't see from their video what this gives over jetbrains find all? Except for a web interface that takes me out of the editor.
You can disable them by side-loading an alternate launcher.

Sadly, an Amazon FireTV update is disabling this for firetv
But who will pay for the actual connection? Even in the 5G brave new world it's not going to be free.
In addition to all of these edge cases, it doesn’t help that the metadata services have a lot of inconsistency as well. Say I have a song X that was performed live on DATE at some VENUE. It may show up as titled “X”, “X [live]”, “X (Live DATE)”, “X (DATE VENUE)”, and so on. Stuff that should be in metadata ends up in strings embedded in song and album titles, which makes for a big mess. I curate a huge collection and trying to keep my metadata consistent is a massive headache. I think I’ve tried just about every tool out there and still haven’t found one that I’m happy with.
Inside every large graph is a small graph dying to get out.

There's a place for just wanting to see everything, but the beauty of graphs is abstraction. Sometimes if you are asking a specific questions, a small, beautiful graph might be a better way to answer the question, than just rendering a diagram with hundreds or thousands of objects.

Graphviz just provides a basic rendering service; it would be up to higher semantic layers to support such exploration. Also, no doubt, interactivity is essential. It would be good for some enterprise that has the incentives to support the work, to create a new system, or at least to extend Graphviz to support better interactivity. It is not such a big stretch.
Why Reason in place of say Logic, Ableton Live, Studio One, Digital Performer, or Reaper? Any advantages in your case?
Key takeaway from this stuff: don't connect your TV to the internet.

Just get a stupid Roku stick, Amazon Stick, Apple TV, whatever.

It's obviously not right that they're doing this, but the solution is very simple and probably a better experience anyway.
It seems to me that there is something missing in just analyzing wage gaps between men and women for the same level. For example, I've heard (anecdotally) of a FAANG company where the leadership realized (I'm unclear how, but likely through a grassroots movement) that women earn more than their male counterparts in the same level, but this was due to many of the women being overqualified for their level and being denied promotion to a higher level.
A bird can't teach a fish how to fly. Any advice you hear could be good, broadly speaking, and still ill suited to you because none of us know anything about what's causing your dissatisfaction.

With that in mind, what makes you hate your job? What are you looking for in a job?

What are your goals?
What resources or talents do you have to help reach those goals?
What things are you willing to sacrifice to meet your goals?

Start there, and maybe the rest will fall into place.

Now to completely disregard my previous statement. My answer to your original question is, 'you don't.' I've come to the conclusion that no job can make me happy because of my personality--this may not be true for you. Consequently I sought a job that didn't make me miserable, and that has been good enough for now.
This is displaying an interactive ad over the non-interactive version of the same ad. It's not targeted and it's not a net increase in ads or anything.
The display of the banner ads is more visible, but the privacy implications are a bigger issue, since the ads seem to be tailored to the content you're watching.

If they do this in countries covered with reasonable privacy laws (e.g. the EU), go directly to regulators.
This is why my TV’s don’t connect to the internet, period. Have bought 2 Samsung TVs over last 12 months and neither has ever been connected to the internet. The menu regularly complains about it but I’ve learned to ignore that because my TV does one thing, go to source my receiver is plugged into and let the receiver do the rest.
CLI Domain Scanner – New Features
Pretty sure the industry is handing a market segment to Apple here. Stay tuned for the Apple Television in 2023
> Housing should be affordable for all, not just teachers.

There is affordable housing - just not where people want to live

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1128-Outwoods-Cir-Birming...
How do you know that it actually works? Are there formal studies that compare different approaches? (it doesn't look like the difference can be easily evaluated and therefore it is extremely easy to mislead yourself on the effectiveness of some baroque process)
Typically when people complain about "luxury" housing what they are talking about are dense condos or apartments where there are far more units than whatever was there before.

The only people that I've heard complain about luxury housing that's not adding more units are when YIMBYs gripe about single family zoning: it's perfectly legal to replace an existing single family home with a far more luxurious single family home without any community input or checkpoints. But more affordable "luxury" townhomes are blocked st every stage by legislative processes that enable single family homeowners to extract ever increasing land rents, when they enforce artificial scarcity. But YIMBYs have almost zero political sway in almost all jurisdictions, and their framing of single family homes as luxury is far from usual.
yeah errors appear to be a wart