skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Virtue signaling has real consequences because it typically involves majority groups parachuting into terrain about which they know nothing and using their disproportionate influence to distort conversations that are already happening in that space.

I’m convinced that progressive virtue signaling in 2020 set the cause of police reform back a decade. Having lived in downtown Atlanta, Baltimore, and Wilmington, I knew that voters in those cities were skittish about crime. These are the moms who show up every year to vote in municipal elections. When Larry Hogan sent the Maryland national guard in to quell rioting in Baltimore after Freddie Gray’s death, his approval rating in the overwhelmingly Black and Democrat city shot up over 70%. Police reform only happens in these communities when voters feel their kids are safe.

In the summer of 2020, however, you had people who had never paid any attention to policing or racial justice issues before egging on riots and amplifying some of the stupidest far left ideas. These were people who didn’t live in these communities, had no understanding of the politics in these cities, and had no skin in the game anyway. The result was predictable: homicides skyrocketed, citizens of these cities freaked out, and police budgets are bigger than ever. Atlanta’s previously popular mayor (who had never really supported defund or similar messaging but got painted as not doing enough in response to rising crime) bowed out and didn’t run for re-election. Progressive candidates got hammered in elections like in NYC. The mayor of SF is throwing the city’s DA under the bus. It’s a damn mess.
> displays such as mask wearing are low-effort, low-cost, require little to no compromise or change in one's lifestyle and behavior

If only we could have convinced more of the rabid anti-maskers of this. Sadly they were too busy virtue-signalling about how the tyrannical government was stripping away their essential liberties.
Pablo honey?
You could try. But several of the APIs just map to Linux equivalents. Such as if you ask for network details, it would interact with Linux to determine what is needed and return that value.

Things like dxvk or vkd3d have done support for what you are describing iirc though.
Very cool, how does waymo use this for their self driving development work ?
Rather than make it a rule, tax it.

For example in Australia there is CGT on an investment property apportioned to the time it acted as such (as apposed to principle place of residence).

CGT is fairly lame in Australia with both a 50% discount and perhaps you need not pay it for 1000 years if you keep passing the property down through family.

Land tax and vacant property tax would help motivate thought!
I keep my TVs on a separate subnet so I can control them via network, but they are not allowed to reach the internet.
Please enlighten us how you know statin health effects are 100% related to the fact their usage happen to reduce TC measurements, as your entire post assumes that.

Alternative hypothesis: high cholesterol is correlated (a small part of TC is from eating) with some adverse medical condition that statins are effective against. From this cohort, statin users measure lower cholesterol and die less. That lower cholesterol is always desirable and we should stop eating eggs would make absolutely no sense.
> I hope a new upstart company comes along to just sell simple TVs.

This but for everything.

Everything is so full of bullshit no one asked for these days. Refrigerators. Ovens. Cars. Microwaves. TVs. Computers.

You name it, it's full of garbage that both took a lot of effort to put there AND makes the product worse.

It's like capitalism has contracted herpes.
I think the comment is referring to the fact that "zooming in" below the wavelength of light (e.g. with electron microscopy) means you can't see color.
No, way too generous a definition; one that posits a “selected” function for every nucleotide. Human effective population size is much too low to effectively clear the genome of junk.

Read Michael Lynch: The Origins of Genome Architecture.
If someone is working hard and trying to make it work, the rest of the team is going to try and make it work too. A seemingly good rule of thumb is to start seriously considering firing someone the moment the thought enters your head. Typically by the time you're having those thoughts, the situation is likely irredeemable. In a generally positive work environment, folk aren't typically thinking about firing each other, and so it can take a while.
I'm glad you shared. It's funny as CNC/fabrication is something appealing to me right now. Our stories might end up thematically parallel but reversed.
Can't you install Linux on your TV, or can you SSH into the smart TV OS and disable the /etc/hosts ad list?
There are a lot of advantages to renting. You don’t need to secure a loan, you aren’t responsible when something breaks, and you don’t have to find a buyer when you leave. If you only plan to stay somewhere for a couple of years, renting is great.
maybe session.

src: https://getsession.org
Yes, and that's why hybrid doesn't make much sense - even if you have 80% in office and 20% remote, then you have to have 100% of the processes/costs/downsides of remote work (because almost everyone needs to work as if you were remotely), but you get only 20% of the benefits of remote work.
> just caring about your own property value more than caring about righting unjust racial consequences

lol nah I feel pretty good calling that racism sorry
Of course. The problem doesn't (in fact, never) lies with you - it's always the _others_ who are incapable of practicing virtuous acts that are at fault.
> We're not responsible for your choice, we just gave you what you voted for with your wallet.

you are assuming people make their TV-buying choice with complete information

does the cheap TV have a big "NEW! SHOWS EXTRA ADS!" announcement on the outside of the box, or in any of its promotional material? no, of course not.

also: "Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV" means they didn't use to do this. people bought these TVs not knowing they would receive an update to show ads at some point in the future.

this free-market "consumers made an informed decision about the trade-offs of a cheaper TV" argument is absolute hogwash.
Everyone here's over thinking it. Of course you ca. It's just expensive (free shipping though) https://m.de.aliexpress.com/item/1432182326.html?gatewayAdap...
> jailbreaking a device voids its warranty

In the EU, I'm fairly sure it doesn't.
It got out of beta with the SCALE 22.02.0 release.
I've been using it a little bit, but I feel like they still have some quirks to iron out, especially since Scale abstracts K3s and doesn't allow users to control it directly.
They're referring to these ads as "features that benefit viewers"?

Oh hell no. I will never, ever, ever buy any product from any company who does this kind of bullshit. Are you listening, Vizio? I mean forever. I'd rather go buy a 40-year-old tube TV than deal with this.
If the retailer is the only available target, they're a fair target. Make it clear that these products will cost them money if they try to sell them, and they'll stop selling them.
Vizio are also being sued for ripping off the Linux kernel and not complying with the GPL license.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
I certainly have to double clutch to go down into first since it doesn't have a syncro, but that's a pretty rare need. Even selecting first from neutral while stationary is a challenge.
Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring is the most fascinating to me. Never heard of it
Super interesting, and I watched the video on GitHub!

Of course, for an EOS to be useful at the critical point you have to believe that there is such a thing as continuum or even thermodynamic equilibrium at the critical point ;-)
Folks keep saying this, but I can’t find a reference to this actually happening. There is no way that current wireless connectivity can be cost effective to deploy at the scale of consumer televisions.
I've had good luck with TVs from Sony, which would probably be considered higher end based on price bracket. They ship with near-stock Android TV, don't make a fuss about not being connected to the internet, and allow firmware updates via thumb drive. Have had a couple now that I use with an Apple TV, which is a pairing that works very well.
The stick does have a far more limited scope: It's limited by whatever's possible by HDMI.
Moonless Earth Theory
I meant all Prometheus based solutions, includes Thanos, M3, VictoriaMetrics. Thank you for your answer.
“Been discussed” and refuted.
> 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.

So you want to file a lawsuit for damages that would be limited to the value of your TV (possibly reduced by the value of the substitute), instead of getting a refund of the purchase price of your TV?

Other than enriching a lawyer, what benefit would that provide you?
Around here, if you don’t want to buy a house with un-permitted work, it’s no problem; there’s another buyer standing right behind you (often literally) who will.
No, since Vizio doesn't release the Linux source code that will run on their TVs. Might be able to hack the existing install though, IIRC that is a normal Linux distro with systemd etc.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
All smart TVs are terrible, and aigapping Vizio has been the only saving grace to them in our first home to date.
Apple TV doesn't. Never has. Likely never will. Apple has no incentive to indulge in that kind of behavior.
I guess you would be the person to correct me here. I was lead to believe several competing mechanisms that collectively lead to "junk DNA".

1. Junk DNA is irrelevant from the perspective of the cell but in some way selected for by the fitness function of likely DNA transcription errors.

2. Junk DNA is formerly-coding legacy DNA that was "turned off" by natural selection but never fully deleted.

3. Junk DNA is in some way error-correction / check-sums for the coding part of DNA.

4. Junk DNA is physically protecting the coding parts of DNA by letting most stray radiation act inconsequentially.
This is the right way to go. If I were looking for a job right now I'd be hitting you up. I've said as much in a few other threads but it's not only the right thing to do, its a competitive advantage.
What I'm Building in 2022
Some of us have moved to places that aren't a reasonable commute to an office. It's much nicer not having to deal with big city traffic for anything.
> "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.

What kind of soulless automaton can write corp-speak garbage like this?

I wonder what Adam Bergman would think if his dentist took a piss in his mouth and then charged him for “industry-leading oral antiseptics”.
Indeed, it's much easier to hide that you're gay than that you're black or Russian.
It doesn’t externalize costs at all. We’re talking easily 20 developer hours per candidate. That’s real money.
Not true at all.

So much charming and well intentioned misinformation on this thread; as much as if I were to weigh in on the pros and cons of MariaBD versus PostgreSL.

Coding sequence is under significantly higher levels of active “purifying” selection than regulatory DNA, and much higher than de novo mutations in repetitive mobile elements that only rare perturb phenotypes.
Methinks it might be cheapest to have an open source main board to replace the internals of a platform-subsidized 4k model rather than build from scratch.
He worked on the 2013 remaster. Doesn't really seem like he washed his hands of it.
GameStop's stock price is skyrocketing again
I suspect it's for the simple reason that anyone capable of doing this will choose to never connect a smart TV to the internet, and setup an external source. You'd have to do this with a dumb TV too, it's just fewer steps.
Just ask him if he likes them on his home TV.
A guide to freelancing as a solo developer
I’ve been freelancing on and off throughout my entire career as entrepreneur and programmer. A lot of my thinking has been around scaling my business when it’s just me. Throughout the years, I have been able to get better and better at this. I’ve realized that what it comes down to is that Building software as a freelancer is about turnaround time.
This is one of the reasons why I always advocate never using the vendor software on a device and always replacing it with a new OS of your own choosing.

Note of course that even common Linux distributions have privacy issues, here are the ones that we knows about for Debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
I would say, "Chicago." People in Chicago get really frustrated that they don't get to ride the wave of housing appreciation, but the flip side is that housing seems to be overwhelmingly more affordable there. I'm sure part of that is the tax levels and general instability of the Illinois government, which put downward pressure on prices, like flooding insurance in hurricane prone areas.

If you can't see filtering where you live, that says either that you're not looking, or that it's a place where new housing stock is being severely restricted.

It varies by locale. In high rise condos, filtering may mean that the appliances are white, the floors haven't been refinished, and the bathrooms are original. In my hometown, it's houses without air conditioning; I can immediately recognize a house that has no A/C in my old neighborhood by its listing price, square feet, and bedrooms, which means that refraining from doing that retrofit keeps space open for lower income or lower net worth people.
I love reading Hacker News for many reasons, but one of them is to see just HOW different "Silicon Valley/FAANG" mentality is from virtually everywhere else. Where 7 interviews and a full day on-site are seen as normal, productive, and fair to all involved.

FWIW, Where I'm at:

* Right now it's employee's market. I am pushing to have two short interviews with candidates, recruiting is pushing to minimize it to ONE. Otherwise we lose the candidates we most want to get - the highly qualified, ambitious ones who don't have time to waste and have opportunities and options

* We hire to keep. We are not hiring for somebody to do boilerplate for 12 months, stack their resume, and keep going. We are hiring to invest into them - ensure they learn about the business, the functionality, the processes, the system, the stakeholders, the clients, the team members; and perform well and smoothly and for a long time. As such, we find that technical skillset is important, but some of the non-technical skillsets much more so - sense of ownership and commitment, communication and soft skills, etc. So the 3 or 6 or 12 hours of coding problems really don't meet our needs.

I thought Google after a decade basically said - data doesn't support some of these crazy interviewing styles we have become known for. Did industry miss/ignore the data and decided to double down on making interviews more and more onerous, and more and more filtering out brilliant candidates who don't happen to be able to dedicate days of their lives (or weeks, for the inane interviews which require you to re-memorize your ComSci undergrad) PER OPPORTUNITY which may never hash out?
You sure are making a lot of assumptions about me. I'm not even sure what the problem you're referring to here is. I was just impressed by what a concise, convincing argument in favor of masks you inadvertently made!
Read the article. The ads are triggered and the content is controlled by the broadcasters.
If you don't mind a question (and there is not much detail on the home page for OP), does this imply frame-based or sliding-window-based processing? If so is that as short as a byte or two and does not introduce much delay (i.e. only a character or two)?

Asking because I want to send single characters (or two) from a controller.
And I love corporate apologists!
Sadly it's a logical and inevitable consequence of giving up control over our technology.

I think the answer has to be, simply never buy a TV that you wouldn't be completely satisfied with as a dumb HDMI display. Cos even if it's not abuse like this, eventually the built in functionality will break, or become too insecure to keep active on your network.

In fact it goes for just about any appliance these days: whether it's your fridge, microwave, dryer, doorbell or anything else, if it doesn't have a "dumb" offline mode where you are still completely happy with what it does, don't buy it.
Well, this beats the version of Dune on my HP48GX that blew my mind in the 90s.

I wish there was a good dedicated portable Pico-8 device. The POCKET C.H.I.P. was a great idea but the keyboard and buttons were way too uncomfortable to play for more than a few minutes.
We have much more to fear from stupid people than intelligent machines
Yeah, I hate big cities, generally.

Do you still spend (or, would you like to spend) any time with your teammates? Like several times per year? Or 100% remote?
I’ve been interviewing since 1996. Out of 7 companies I worked for, two I got from knowing the owner/founder, 1 was short, and 4 were >4 hours. This is not new.
I wonder if Sony are releasing the Linux source code they run Android on and I wonder if their firmware updates are signed. If they do release source and updates are signed, you could probably install a regular Linux distro with Kodi.
Yep, and I know TVs are cheap now because they’re always brought up to explain why the official inflation numbers seem lower than actual experience. “Okay, yeah, food, transportation, health care, and housing, sure, they went up… but if you pointlessly destroyed your TV and needed to buy a new one — whoa, Nelly, you’d be sittin’ pretty!”
I have the very same thing you have, and I have started seeing banner ads from Roku on my Apple TV! It appears in the form of a banner overlaying on top of my Apple TV content saying something on the lines of “more ways to watch this content”. I haven’t interacted with the banner yet and don’t know if it’s actually scanning the content to generate recommendations, but regardless I thought it was incredibly invasive of Roku to insert ads into a service it had absolutely nothing to do with.

This thread reminded me of the issue and I’m currently looking into how this can be disabled. Apparently there is a Roku setting that can disable these ad inserts — if that doesn’t work, off with Roku’s internet privilege. Apple TV’s UX is leagues better anyway.
> This is why we've started integrating SIM chips into TVs.

WiFi chips plus a deal with one of the big ISPs that already uses customer-site equipment to provide their own hotspot network app would be more economical and cover most urban and many suburban areas quite well.
Every serious change in the balance of offensive and defensive armament signals another sea of bloodletting, until some new balance is established making operations too dangerous to try. And then somebody executes on another idea, and off we go again.

The only thing that has ever stalled the gushing blood for long is commerce.

Uniquely, the cities of the Harappan culture in Pakistan and eastern India 5000+ years ago betray no hint of any military activity throughout their range, while wars of conquest raged in Mesopotamia.

Probably the Javelin missile could be made 10x cheaper and work just as well, but people don't want them to be that cheap.
No immediate benefit, but it might provide a sufficiently deleterious effect for the manufacturer to effect the desired behavior.
My father in law will buy Vizio and never even mention the ads. Privacy minded consumers are a small, small, small minority that obviously do not affect the marketing decisions of any TV manufacturer.
I think people could probably make lots of money replacing the vendor OS on TVs with a regular Linux distro with Kodi or similar pre-installed.
There are a lot of comments here that appear to be about something other than the specific ad this article is reporting on. This isn't like when Roku was having hovering ads over a live TV broadcast for a product ad that finished.

The ad being tested in the linked article is an interactive ad by Fox TV when the viewer is done watching a specific Fox TV show and the end credits are rolling letting viewers know they can watch additional episodes of that show within the FOXNOW app on their smart TV.
>Samsung has been getting pretty bold here too.

I seem to recall Samsung sending me notification banners on my Galaxy phone several years ago, around the holiday season, to buy more Samsung shit. From that moment on, I disliked them.
>Light also penetrates the skin few mm or more (hold a flashlight to you finger) why aren't we studying similar effects with artificial lights which have much more radiative power?

We do study such effects. It's called a highly lucrative field of dermatology. Luckily, however, humans had billions of years to evolve alongside the sunlight, but phototherapy of all sorts is quite popular, and skin photo-damage is discussed at probably every appointment?

Ok, about mast cells and degranulation, I'll be very frank with you: literally nobody in the entire world understands them fully. Yes. Nobody. Entire world. Not even the absolute best of the best. I mean it. Mast cels supposedly release 200+ mediators, 90%+ of which are not even characterized. Tons of receptors on them that nobody bothered to figure out what they do. There is even a newly recognized clinical entity MCAS/MCAD (mast cell activation disorder), in which physicians and patients are attempting educated guesswork with various treatments to see what sticks. The clinical presentation can be anything from itchy cheeks to having near-fatal anaphylaxis hourly, and everything in between. It doesn't even have a settled consensus on diagnostic criteria yet - ongoing disputes SINCE 1991 (as per wikipedia). Some sources claim 10-18% prevalence in various degrees of severity, fun stuff.

This is mainstream allergy specialty we are talking about. Peanuts, eggs, pollen, that type of mundane stuff. So just to set your expectations right: nothing around peanut allergy is conclusive to physics's standard of five sigma.

Absolutely nothing. Maybe aside from the fact peanuts contain peanuts, and some people tend to be allergic to them. Nobody seems to dispute that. That's where we stand with mast cells.

EMF and mast cells? Now that's really pushing the envelope. That sort of research isn't going to get you anything but a tinfoil hat. Nobody does it. No money or fame in it. Why do it?

The theory about EMF and mast cells (and more recently, associated small nerve fibers) is fairly old though, at least 20 years now, seems like credible people, and plausible enough mechanism. Is it jumping to conclusions? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10859662/

Not conclusive enough? Tons of studies on mast cells and EMF/radiation. Here's 1st page hit on google (pubmed search sucks): https://www.nature.com/articles/srep41129

N.B.: the SAR in that study is on the same order of magnitude as your iphone.

Demyelination if found in humans could mean dx of multiple sclerosis, a devastating illness...and ADHD-like hyperactive behaviour? Wonderful.

Still not sufficiently conclusive? You might want to travel, examine brain slices with your own eyes, and report back in this thread. The study seems fresh, slides might still be in storage.

The only absolutely conclusive anything might ever come up in the next 50-100 years (if you live that long), just like we found out our way with thalidomide, leaded gas, BPA, perfluorinates, and many other toxins, poisons, viruses and other such cooties we've survived for billions of years right up until this very moment.

Could be safe. Could be multiple sclerosis. NBD.