skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for LG, but my anecdata is:

I own a Vizio TV. I put a wifi password on it when I first got it, but took it off later on when my TV started turning on in the middle of the night.

Since then, even through a factory reset, it's somehow automatically downloaded firmware updates and installed them.

They've changed how the power button worked, and other UI changes.

The system menu reports no wifi set up.
I don't quite see the connection between GDPR and requiring Internet to function. Could you elaborate on your thinking here?
> Instead, richer students’ higher scores reflect a problem that is much more durable and pervasive: These students are the beneficiaries of lifelong inequalities in opportunities to learn. [..] children as young as 2 years old from low-income families differ from their better-off counterparts in their performance on standardized tests.

Odd not to follow up such a claim with a breakdown of SAT scores by family income, such as the one on https://www.jbhe.com/latest/index012209_p.html - under "Family Income Differences Explain Only a Small Part of the SAT Racial Scoring Gap"
I am glad vim has the option to place the swap files where you want them, and make them unique (by setting 'directory' to end with "//").

For vim and ed and every other console program, I would run them inside screen(1) to avoid losing work due to network troubles, and network disconnects is usually where I get my SIGHUP.
To be clear, it's not that you think they are smart and fun to work with, it's that you are saying they are smart and fun to work with.
I guess they mean that there are no original recordings for most of it, lots of cover bands etc.
That only reduces the cost from the point of view of Ukraine or the West, not from the point of view of the one being sanctioned.
Rumor: Microsoft supports minimal subsystem of the Win32 API in Linux
In the United States there's the Magnuson-Moss warranty act which (among other things) places the burden on the manufacturer to prove that your miscare caused the failure; they can't simply say "you jailbroke the firmware, no warranty for you!", nor can they say "you broke that seal, no warranty!", nor can they say "you didn't install a Dodgerific oil filter in your Grand Caravan, so no, we're not going to warranty your spun main bearing" (however, nothing stops them from saying "that oil filter you installed does not have an anti-drainback valve like our oil filter does, thus your engine did not receive lubrication as quickly as it should each time it was started, so that's why your engine is damaged, and we're not going to warranty that."

From Wikipedia:

> The federal minimum standards for full warranties are waived if the warrantor can show that the problem associated with a warranted consumer product was caused by damage while in the possession of the consumer, or by unreasonable use, including a failure to provide reasonable and necessary maintenance.

The MM act also provides for awarding attorney's fees in a lawsuit against a manufacturer for violations of the act. Pretty sweet.

Separately, there are implied warranties of merchantability and fitness under the uniform commercial code.

US customers are almost completely ignorant of this. It really steams my cabbage when I see people heap praise on a company for warrantying an item that failed horribly, just outside the warranty period, and was an item that is usually quite durable and long-lasting.
It is an answer to the question “Why is free speech important?”

Nobody questions the importance of individual thought. Collective thought might even be more important. By squelching free speech we lose the ability to think collectively.

Free speech is important because thought is important.
ed was a lifesaver if your Unix system didn't fully boot because unlike ex/vi, it was statically compiled and had no dependencies on other filesystems. Plus it was cool to learn just as a bit of history and in a very small way follow in the footsteps of some amazing people.
There's a Dilbert cartoon (which alas I can no longer find) where the punchline is "experience doesn't work like that".

In other words you can predict the outcome of someone else's endeavour, because of your own experience, you could tell them your prediction, but they'd go ahead anyway because experience has to be lived, and is seldom passed from one person to another.

This startup post-mortem seems to happen almost weekly, and despite all the literature (formal and informal) it seems like the same mistakes are made over and over again.

To the author I say, well done, you are gaining some valuable experience, and learning some valuable lessons. By all means get a job to replenish empty coffers, so that when you do another startup you apply those lessons learnt (and if that fails you'll have more experiences to share.)

For my own journey I got lucky. We bootstrapped the business with no investment, writing custom software, until we found our product niche and pivoted into selling that. I have no idea if that strategy would work today - and alas the experience of our mistakes (of which there were many) is unlikely to be transferable.

Good luck! (seriously, a big of good luck really helps a lot...)
I got an email asking for second change pool so I clicked it. Sorry. Didn't know someone else submitted.
Quite the opposite actually. At one of the big techs that I was part, they ran some analysis and found that anything more than 4 interviews didn't add any value in assessing the chances of an individual succeeding at the company. I never read the details of the tests they ran but I'm glad they came to that conclusion.
Reminder that you should have your authention setup in whatever you are developing before you bind to 0.0.0.0 or a routable address. Even if you trust all the people and devices on your LAN. There are ways to port scan from within a webpage so it’s possible that someone on your LAN visits a malicious page and exposes your service to the internet as well. 127.* is treated as a different origin so doesnt have this problem. A decade a go many dev tools would bind to routable interfaces by default and this was frequently exploited. Loopback is a much safer default.
boredom, counterintuitively, can be a powerful motivator
That's interesting. I'll have to think on why (or profile) the ld.so.conf.cache way is faster.

Thanks for the profile.
I found the same as of a couple months ago, ended up going with one of the expensive options. Where I'm at in the apartment complex even 5 GHz is overcrowded to the point of degradation regardless of channel so I really wanted to make the jump. Now that I did on all my devices I still haven't seen a single other 6 GHz BSSID in the area despite trying to find one.

I suspect Wi-Fi 7 will be more common. Wi-Fi 6E was great but unless you're one of the rare consumers that is going to replace every client chip you can to gain use out of that 3rd band it's identical to the Wi-Fi 6 equipment many just recently upgraded to. Wi-Fi 7 will have the benefit of some phones/laptops already being 6 GHz capable at launch (even if only 6E devices at first) as well as being a general improvement and farther apart for most in their upgrade cycles.
9ct/GB for plain BD-R is a rip-off. They cost 0.08 USD a piece (if you reach MOQ on Alibaba), plus about the same as patent license fees. So 16ct/25GB, not 9ct/GB.

Taking storage overhead (cases of some sort; spindles aren't well-suited to store BD long-tem) into account, the Chinese 20ct/50GB (plus patent; iirc sub-linear scaling with capacity?) option of a DL BD-R may easily be cheaper over all.
It's funny how everyone loves the portal demake the most. It's currently the lemmings one that's under heavy development. http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/lemm/
If users are OK with this, then I don't see a problem.

If you don't want ads, don't buy this device.
California has issues because people are flooding into it. You could just as readily blame Portland for not fixing their housing prices caused by Californians moving up.
I've done a variation of this exercise with some folks I helped to interview.

We showed them our website and asked how they'd investigate/troubleshoot a complaint that the site was "slow."

Then we kind of role-played the troubleshooting process. Ideally I wanted them to determine if the site was slow for everybody, vs. just the person that reported the issue. If it was only slow for a single person, was it their account, or many just their internet connection? How would they determine that? If we determined the issue was happening for everybody, how would you determine which part of the stack was slow? Etc.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30865323
Bullshit is correct, and the other side of it is that for every extra shiny feature, cost needs to be cut to maintain profit margin, so something else gets shittier.

My fridge has a digital display, always on, so I can calibrate the temperature of the fridge and freezer. This replaced a simpler and more reliable analog knob in older fridges.

They cut corners by building the freezer shelves out of as little plastic as possible. Bits of plastic chip off over time, and the drawer itself is held together with tiny plastic clips that invariably break.
I played Wolfenstein by Muse Software, on which Wolf3D is based, in an Apple ][ and there is longer story on both of these games: https://www.apple2history.org/spotlight/the-long-strange-sag...
That press release in no way relates to jailbreaking, but to requirements to use branded parts...

However, yes, Magnuson-Moss also specifies that manufacturers must honor a warranty unless they can prove the failure happened due to damage or misuse caused by the customer. That (I believe) is why jailbreaking alone can't invalidate a warranty by itself.
I really miss what.cd
My costing put it as positive compared to disk even without massive discounts, but physical volume is a problem, and cheaply constructed disks are volatile.

There's an open space for cheap tape drives.
Here is that January 25 piece with its "nauseating content."

If you can think of better terminology to describe such obsequious blather as

To protect its own security, Russia desires a neutral, friendly, multilingual Ukraine

please let us know.
It seems that Microsoft decided to open source those code, which is good news.

But I don't understand. What could Microsoft gain by doing so?
If you’re 10% likely to get a job with a 50k signing bonus and you’re doing 7 interviews for that job your expected value is $715 per interview.
> they did hire the correct people, but working there is so unpleasant that very few people decide to stick around.

There are plenty of Amazonians who can handle the culture and stay much longer. It's clear they are not hiring those who can do. It's not an "alternative" hypothesis, but the same one. They haven't figured out how to identify those who can handle it.

And this, given how heavily behavioral their interview is.
My only 2c is that the WFH vs office conversation often seems to pretend that there aren't a ton of businesses with desk workers where many of their colleagues can't feasibly work from home -- manufacturing for example. It's not even only the people physically building the products who obviously have to be there, but even mechanical engineers have a reason to.

My job is to build software to make the lives of the people building our product better. I'd prefer myself and my team to be there with them frequently, instead of considering ourselves to be part of some class of special people that have the luxury of working at home most of the time.

That said, I do appreciate the flexibility of being able to work from home for house maintenance, deliveries, family stuff, etc.

Beyond all that, going into the office (or factory really) is energizing. Too much time at home and I get reminded of CGP Grey's "spaceship you" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
This arguably falls under the implied warranty for fitness / merchantability and I don't think it's remotely a given that a lawsuit would be tossed.
I miss in-person activities, especially going to lunch with coworkers, trying a new restaurant, or one of our old favorites. Remote has become pretty old.
I meant why was it ever like that?
Actually, gender behaviour differences are noted in non-human primate infants also. For example (and I can find the study if you're interested), male baby monkeys prefer toy firetrucks to dolls, and they don't display motherly (viz., feeding, caressing, etc) behaviour towards the toys, whereas female infant monkeys prefer dolls (even human dolls) to toy firetrucks, and they do display these behaviours. At least when I was taught this in uni (2017) this finding/conclusion was sound enough to be in textbooks, and had been replicated and was considered paradigmatic of innate biological gender differences.

There is also plenty of evidence that testosterone has effects on male aggression, caring instincts, bonding, etc. Pretending that gender hormonal differences don't exert massive effects on interests and social behaviours is not tenable, IMO. No doubt more men than currently do would would go into childcare if the wages suddenly became $200/hour, but that doesn't mean they'd be as good as it as women are on average, nor would it reflect a change in their natural desires/motivations.

Good day.
but I am a pretty suboptimal developer, especially when
working with huuge codebases.

I'm in the same boat when it comes to huge codebases. I see people being effective on them and I often simply do not know how they do it.

But it is for sure, a completely different skill from leetcode style stuff.
The reserve and the frozen assets should be returned if and only if the Russian People send Putin and his hunta to the ICJ.

The reparation part sound nice too though
Some cities do have subway systems that are running a profit. For example, Tokyo's private companies running the various subway systems are profitable, with high farebox recovery ratios and additional revenue from station leases for commercial vendors (vending machines and convenience stores).
Some people are just very grumpy that they have to go back to the office.

So here comes along this guy that loves going back to the office. Fuck that guy! He must be faking it, he's lying to himself. It's that fake American culture that acts as if it's a nice thing to go back to work. It's because of these kind of people that I'm forced to go back! :)

I'm European and I know the fake US thing, but I didn't read that in your post.
What stops you from doing that now? You still get lunch breaks when WFH.
Poor Man's Epoch
The good news is that someday we’ll eventually fund enough research to slow the progression, or even solve the problem.

The bad news is it likely won’t be soon enough for those reading the article.

Making everyone aware of their odds could help increase funding.
Amazon follows the hire fast PIP fast strategy.

Look what that did to their reputation and company culture.

Netflix is a little more successful at this, but they have a much smaller eng footprint and much higher compensation in order to attract and retain top performers.
Even transforming an error is taken care of by ?

func()? desugars to (more or less)

match func() {
Ok(v) => v,
Err(e) => return Err(e.into())
}

I'm also not really sure what the complaint is. Go doesn't do any more implicit type conversion than Rust does. There are numerous solid arguments for Go over Rust, but error handling and automatic type punning aren't on the list.
Wow, I didn’t know that.
Most of this is great, but I'm calling BS on the Tchaikovsky example. Yes, there's been multiple historical spellings of his name, and to be absolutely accurate you would use the Cyrillic. However, the vast, vast majority of use cases should use the modern accepted spelling in English when referring to Tchaikovsky, which is what Wikipedia uses. There's a line you have to draw somewhere between accuracy and comprehension by the user and "Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky" is a pretty damn good one. The only other one I see commonly these days is the slightly more Anglicized "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky" but that's it. Most other variants are historical or just have different editorial decisions, but they all refer back to the same guy, not a living artist who is changing his stage name all the time.
Having to "deal" with an appliance that way isn't acceptable for me, + the crappy OS that comes with em.

I work in helpdesk for an ISP by the way. I see what smart tvs do, and it aint pretty.
> Why not just never connect it to the network?

One reason might be if the TV channels are delivered over IP to an app running on the TV. One could move the app to a streaming box, but that would be largely functionally equivalent since it would still require the same underlying platform.

This is the case with my TV provider (https://www.init7.net/en/support/faq/TV7-Voraussetzungen/).

Now, ads haven't been an issue. However, unwanted Android TV updates have (I've now disabled them).
It wasn't an apology.
I like the article, but for the author to say they’ve ‘mastered’ the markets at 23 is just laughable. He’s doing a higher level of /biz/ trading which is essentially betting based on memes and sentiment. This is gambling. Anything other than value investing is gambling.
I feel like the punishment for murder and child rape should be higher than being cursed by your family.

Hopefully as a minimum Ukraine prosecutes and charges each and every captured Russian soldier when this is over. As a minimum they are guilty of partaking in a war of aggression.
1. There are people who are more sociable and more likely to thrive working with other people in person, while some other type of people are more introverted, sensitive and dislike human interactions.

2. There are companies/work environments/jobs/teams where coworkers are mostly nice, smart and a pleasure to work with. There are also companies/work environments/jobs/teams that suck and filled with political, disgruntled and unhappy employees.

So, the only thing that is universally true is YMMV.
Nothing, but it's more than exception than the rule now.
Not sure if the 2022 models have changed but I have the flagship 20/21 Vizio and it works 100% fine with no internet connection. I haven't ever accepted the EULA so even with a network connection it displays no ads or obnoxious bloatware.

It's dumb but the best option ATM is to buy the best TV for the money and just use it with an Nvidia Shield. When TVs start locking down basic functions behind EULAs and/or use built-in cellular connections then we'll have a huge issue.
I got my last job with 5 h. And honestly, I’d rather do 7 h as an interview than 20 h over 2 w for $200/hr. I’m just thinking about this and the thought just makes me feel so bleh.

I think it’s the liability it incurs. A two week commitment. I just can’t see doing it for $4k. It’s just not worth it.

It’s like 4 calls for 4 hours on a consulting platform. Instead of 4 h I have to spend 20 h and spread over 2 w. This kills me.
The most knowledgeable person doesn't always have the title but they are usually the head of the shadow org that actually gets the job done.
> "...I failed the phone screen somehow by someone who sounded 20 years younger than me..."

Consider, possibly, that the mismatch is explained in this sentence.

I will absolutely give high weight to how the receptionist is treated by the candidate.
So weird that service that limits posts to 280 characters is also a long-form blogging platform.
A few years ago my cousin decided to have a wild garden. She just removes some weeds, but lets most things grow unchecked.

The garden is now always full of bees in summer.

So sure, we can invest millions in robotic beehives. But we could also let nature do it's job.
How to teach your elementary school kids percents
How will the content provider know that a local EAS encoder has been activated? The EAS message is flattened into the video that an advertisement would/could cover. The example image of the jump ad in the article is covering the area that most EAS encoders provide text.
How does the Pico 8 work? You pay for the console and the games are included?
I wonder if at some point just cracking the thing open and removing/disabling the wireless card will be commonplace.
Jeff Buckley’s Grace is an awesome album, much recommended if people haven’t heard it yet.
Sharding Is Also NP-Complete
Thanks for the kind words and the guidance.

I think there was also a misunderstanding. I'm not returning to the office. It was just a one week visit. I am back to working remote. I live 500mi/800km from my office. I will not move there.

fake American culture that acts as if it's a nice thing to go back to work

Are you from America? I do not understand this statement. I have lived in America my whole life and everybody complains about their jobs 99% of the time. Maybe a person might lie to their boss about being happy. But nobody lies to their friends or strangers about loving their jobs. I mean, wtf? That's what people think Americans do?
> I'd prefer myself and my team to be there with them frequently, instead of considering ourselves to be part of some class of special people that have the luxury of working at home most of the time.

there's a balance. I would consider being on site as a special case; do it when needed. This means the workplace needs to plan it out, and know ahead of time when it is going to happen.
How tragic. It is so human to try to make sense of a life filled with so much suffering by blaming that suffering on one's own actions, or even on the actions of others, when the actual cause is likely uncontrollable. Especially when there was such a small amount medical knowledge in the early 1900s to be able to know what that cause is, for certain. It even happens today with a huge amount of people, with many known and unknown diseases.
Here is a possibly unpopular opinion. I have a Phd (got it when I was young). In some areas of computing (e.g. OS, Systems) work gets obsolete fairly quickly. I suspect my PhD topic was useless about 4-10 years after I finished the thesis. Of course, I got a few hundred citations, and this suggests that perhaps more enduring work was done based on mine, but in any case, I don't buy the dent in the universe argument for some fast changing fields (e.g. Deep Learning today). My wife was reading the life story of Louis Pasteur to our 6 year old, and it was remarkable what a dent his contribution made. Most people I knew who finished Phds did not do much of note (and this is fairly elite tier). One person has an algorithm named after them but it is also a bit obsolete (e.g. happened to a lot of classical CV and NLU algorithms post DL).

I was talking to a theoretical Physics PhD at a conference recently, and even he was quite jaded (he switched to CS post PhD). It was obvious that this person was wicked smart and had quant knowledge. So if you want a PhD for transferable skills, go for it! A masters might be faster though.

Do what makes you happy at the end.. it is sort of nice I can drop in the fact I have a PhD and it was probably good for me on the whole .. but if you are thinking of getting a PhD in CS, consider attending top conferences in your field before committing (e.g. SOSP for OS/Systems, CVPR for vision, CHI for HCI,...). I just had no clue what I was getting into and I actively wish someone had given me this sort of info before I got into it. A PhD has a huge opportunity cost.
There is a lot of conjecture in that thread. Assuming the materials describing procedure for mass burials are true, he immediately jumps to the conclusion that the Russians planned for a quick victory followed by genocide.
I have a TCL TV and had exactly this problem with an Android TV update that got pushed without me wanting it.
‘ My car is my home’: the California students with nowhere to live
I take back the comment about no bad landlords. Christ!
Alternatively, open the TV up and remove/break the treacherous bits