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The problem with the article is that it's written like an 11 year old was given a topic and she wrote an essay about the thing she was interested in at the time, then tried to shoehorn the actual topic in there.

People want to complain about Big Tech? Fine. Have some actual substance to your argument instead of saying something like "this guy who was barely Indian managed to coerce steel-factory landowners to sell them their land, and because they use A-B testing, that's why Big Tech is bad."

It's a stupid article.
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Consumers tolerating this and just trying to block the ads locally in their house — this is like ignoring the fact that the manufacturer has stuck a huge sex toy in the center of your TV, and wrapping it with a napkin to continue watching.
And why do they have the power to charge rent? Because there's a perpetual artificial shortage caused by the wealthy restricting building.
You might not, but I would.
I was pretty much committed to never buying a Vizio product just based on my experience with their quality and other reports about their "smart" embedded software, but this pretty much seals it. Samsung has been getting pretty bold here too.

I really prefer the free market to correct this kind of abuse, but I'm not sure how that works when they're all doing it. Theoretically everyone could just stop buying TVs but that's not going to happen. So it's just death by a thousand papercuts (abuses) I guess. Very sad.
Assuming streaming TV via Sling/Hulu/ATT TV/YT TV, nVidia shield has a DRM module for watching content, however such hardware attestation compatibility is never a given and can spontaneously break[0]. Otherwise, you can get a TV antenna if you’re fine with the reduced selection that provides.

The general premise, though, is to get a non-smart ‘commercial’ TV without ads and use your own streaming box, maybe even a PC (with a proper OS-GPU-hdmi DRM chain), to control your experience.

0: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/2595...
And the ultimate irony…they send me an e-mail a few days later asking me to take a few minutes to give feedback on their interview process.
There’s something good about seeing people in person. Even if a 4 person mtg, 2 are on zoom but me and another are in the same room. It’s nice to be in the room with the other person, and talking.

I would prefer NOT to go into office, but I don’t think it’s totally pointless. Beyond what I mentioned above, it’s great for 1:1’s. Go for a walk with someone, or have a coffee.

My ideal would be to go in when I want, which would probably net out to 1-2x per month.
I've never owned anything but a dumb TV so excuse what probably is a dumb question but if you buy a smart TV is there a reason you have to use the "smart" features? Why not just never connect it to the network? (Then use an external streaming box and treat it as a dumb tv.)
I dunno, the rise of whole jobs specifically for increasing "diversity" which increasingly seeming to be "anybody but white males" the lawsuit criteria is starting to seem credible. If the company has one of those positions with any authority it's at least circumstantial evidence.
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I own a shield and it’s definitely not the best option imho. There have been instances of ads on it as well: https://www.androidauthority.com/nvidia-shield-tv-ads-123956...
There are dumb TV alternates, such as the ones mentioned in this thread, and there are manufacturers which are better in this regard.

If people are going to prioritize cost while making their purchase decision, it is obvious that the manufacturers are going to see how much they can push.

If people stop buying such TVs, they will stop. So, stop buying such TVs.
Both the rental and home ownership markets are ossifying. Rents in some markets are +30% in past 2 years. If you're fortunate enough to be holding an old lease, you're quite likely paying below market rent. Likewise, homeowners with mortgages would be giving up their refinanced interest rate (70% have rates below 4%) if they were to sell and buy a new primary residence. It's a real mess.
I'm sure you all stand ready to make slippery slope arguments, but an inducement at the end of a live TV broadcast for the user to continue watching the same series by other means does not strike me as either novel or objectionable. All streaming services will prompt you to continue watching the next installment of serialized content at the end. How is this actually different from that?
I believe the tech being used very literally scans the stuff being shown on screen. I have read about this tech in the past. It also raises privacy concerns, as if you watch old family movies or some such, the TV could be beaming metadata of that back to the mothership for analysis. Creepy times we live in.
I definitely ribbed him a bit in the pub for it, as we all did, but it was a consultancy and we had academic & old-school style clients who came in suits themselves so it was probably more accepting than brogrammer startups or whatever
Love my 14 year old dumb TV. Never giving it up.
>It was almost a relief to fail the technical screen and realize I got back an entire day or two of my life.

Been there.
Cue the Bender: Now Thats irony.
I think this is a good idea, mostly because I've been of the opinion that much of the rust "safety" could be done with a linter pass in C++. These annotations should help solve the edge cases that aren't deterministic.

I've not generally been a big fan of where C++ has been going in the last couple revisions, mostly because it seems the newer features aren't fully thought out when it comes to how they interact with other features (reminds me of javascript in that regard) leaving a bunch of new footguns, looks at lambda's.

I think i've said this here before, that C++ needs its own version of "use strict;" that basically kills off some of the syntactically odd corner cases that lead to those footguns.
It’s pretty easy to just not connect it to the network isn’t it?
Can't you just disable the internet connection on a Smart TV?

My current monitor is a 4K TCL Roku TV, but it's only connection is an HDMI cable to the PCs video card.
I think that’s illegal.
If you really still have a cable box, HDMI out to the a splitter for video/audio. Video to the monitor and audio to an amplified speaker.
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Paying $600 or $800 for a television was at one point a normal thing. Not sure what current prices are, but that premium doesn't sound terrible.
TVs are already a low single digit profit margin business.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/VZIO/vizio-holding...
Less profit per unit, you may sell more units than others and make more overall profit.
Are you suggesting public ownership of all land? How do you intend to police this and overcome the political economy of realtors, Biggerpockets, etc.? How would private single unit landowners improve upon modern building costs which are $800k+ a unit in expensive metros?
Likely, assuming your router is intercepting and forwarding all port 53 traffic to it (since they tend to hard-code a DNS server). If they hard code an encrypted DNS client, a custom encryption solution or DOH or otherwise, it can’t be defeated via the network and you’re better off not supporting these practices financially by purchasing the product.
This is the truth. Deploy for -52dbm everywhere and call it a day. Basically future proof.
Often you must connect it to download updates and set it up. For my last TV I even had to make a Samsung account for god knows why just to set it up. After that I think you can disconnect from WiFi and use it just fine. You can also turn off the system UI if you have an Apple TV or similar so that it goes straight into Apple TV rather than showing the pre-installed apps.
Is bailing out banks and huge corporations a left wing or a right wing thing to do? Clearly the second, judging from reality. Your second paragraph is a ridiculous tale of the right that has gotten to the minds of many. "Liberty together with the risk" only concerns non rich people. Look at all those entities getting saved when in a pinch by sweet government money, and tell me if they have liberty or not. Is there a reason EVERYONE cannot be bailed out the same way? US government just threw 3 billion and counting in a heartbeat at Ukraine but somehow a safety net for its own citizens is non feasible?
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I don’t think that’s the argument for Go. It’s a decision that Go developers accept as a trade off for other things that are nice about Go.

I haven’t learned Rust yet, maybe one day I will, but it looks a lot more complex to me, and it’s hard to see how the extra complexity will help me write better web servers.

It’s OK for Rust and Go to solve different problems with different trade offs.
The humans aren’t special bit really comes down to whether you believe in free will (which by any meaningful definition is quite special).
Only ancient WiFi chips have libre/open firmware. There might be some modern routers with a libre OS but proprietary WiFi firmware though.

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
Isn't there a pretty obvious middle ground for broadcasters, advertisers and TV manufacturers to monetize? Smart TVs can track watching behavior and use it to better target ads placed into ad slots already in the broadcast. It's exactly what YouTube and most streaming audio does. Networks can broadcast shows with markers instead of baked-in ads. TVs can request appropriate length ads based on viewing and get more money per slot without viewers seeing more ads.
Define “significantly impose”. That’s the basic problem, existing near someone can have effects that are easy to justify in court unless you legislate that e.g. decreasing or limiting increase on future land values cannot be considered to be civil damages.
This is likely the best answer (at least in the short term).
It's not like 5G will be automatic, right? You'll still need some SIM or auth or whatnot.
I do wonder if they were to offer exactly that - a version with and another without ads, what would happen. This is not without precedent after all. I paid more for my Kindle so as not to have to be advertised to when I want to read.
That solar-powered Arduino server is actually running on nuclear power.
I would buy it. I have a few other devices in the same ball park, but this sounds possibly perfect. The only thing I might want different would a color (non e-ink) screen, and full phone capabilities (a la pinephone).
Maybe something interactive with d3?

Trying to visualize your codebase with a format that is even more static and less navigable (a static image) feels a little contradictory imo
I listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit at a listening station at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 20 years ago and the in-your-faceness blew me away. It was like hearing it for the first time again. I get why that record changed the game.
Probably, but there's a caveat they reset the settings anytime. Here, it's been discussed that they'll eagerly connect to unsecure wifi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275350
Have folks had success at offering to be a junior dev to learn a skill? (Eg I’d love to learn how to set up these complex ML systems and play with data… but I don’t have much formal experience)

Beyond that, I feel this anxiety about leaving management so hard. I’ve been managing for 3-4 years now and I worry my skills are too atrophied.

I miss being able to create and solve problems in the back of my mind.

But then it feels hard giving up the ability to influence direction and take care of people.

But my heart is happiest when I’m mentoring someone or talking how to deal with a tough problem. I barely get to do that anymore :(
That's right, the solar panels decrease monthly utility costs more than they increase the mortgage payment. The law is written to mandate only energy efficiency that saves money, and it's necessary because contractors are too tied to tradition to actually examine what results in lower cost homes.
> he is being arrested because it is illegal in Russia to be against the war

do you have any source to support this?

I went thru most "Criminal Code of Russia" searching for anything related to war, and could not find anything in terms of even temporary jail time for speaking out against war. Many people do, in Russia, including politicians of Putin opposition and they are nor being jailed. Looks like you can get jailed for participating in a protest against war or basically against anything in Russia... but nobody is going to bother going after you because you have posted a mean tweet. And if you search Twitter there are thousands of anti-war anti-Putin tweets from Russian accounts posted for years and these accounts keep being acting and keep posting (from jail I assume???).
That's on the home screen, not displayed over content.
You can also check the web socket, then you will see that light switch signal is sent to each client.
for Android TVs, you can't even turn on the TV without it being connected
symmetries give us the laws of conservation (time symmetry, conservation of energy; rotation symmetry, conservation of angular momentum etc)
All it takes is money. Tradespeople all over the world know how to build a room like this because it’s a construction technique used in hospitals for imaging rooms.

I’ve stood in one before the interior surfaces went up - such an insane amount of copper. They had a guard observing it 24/7.
The price of housing affects everything as it increases the price of labor and logistical overhead required to minimize it.
I couldn't even count the hours I've spent playing this game. So much nostalgia.
Or lower profit margins; they aren't fixed in stone.
I once flew to Alberta, CA from New York to have a conference call with a team that was in another part of Alberta.
Looks like it starts at about $400 for a normal 55 inch 4K Samsung, depending on model.
> Tumblr was often criticized for its purity culture—conversations could go nuclear as soon as someone was deemed “problematic,”

I remember reading about a user called Vade (since inactive) while catching up on internet drama. They successfully weaponized that tendency to frightening effect and IIRC had the power to summarily deplatform challengers within their various fandoms.

As a 4channer I’m not quite sure how cliques form and authority/status is brokered on tumblr, but it was a big thing at the time.
Neither of those is free. You still pay for it, plus you pay for the government's cost of administering it. You're worse off.

With "free" government health care, you're not only paying more for it, but you no longer get to choose what health care you get. You get what a government bureaucrat says you get.
Built-In SIM from the manufacturer.
We don't do take home, leetcode, live coding either. We walk through past projects and ask very pointed questions. We ask about difficult problems we've faced in the past and how you might solve it. I role play a junior programmer describing a situation I have and then ask junior programmer level questions of how to solve the problem. You get to talk to two very senior software developers, and two very senior engineers in other roles, and the CEO (who is also highly technical).

Once you get past the first screening call, I find you on social media, blogs, forums and read your posts, and see what questions you're asking on stackoverflow. Then we might move you to the next stage. All in all, you get a pre-screening from our recruiter (about 15 to 30 minutes), a screening call from a technical hiring manager (30 minutes), and then you talk three or four principal engineers (45 minutes each). This happens in days.

The only person that doesn't talk to you that is highly technical will be the recruiter. If you're hired and start work, we watch what you're doing, mentor as necessary. If you have the right attitude and are coachable, so long as you can string together coherent lines of code then everything else can be taught.
>They do everything they can to block, blacklist, and crush campaigns of progressive primary challengers. They could do that to the "moderate" members who don't want to pass any legislation at all, if passing that legislation was really a priority.

Manchin's a senator from West Virginia, a state that went for Trump by 39 points. Crushing him would just have McConnell not bringing any legislation to a vote again.
Been a while since I've done anything related to audio engineering so my terminology might not be correct, but I've always heard this described as presence. Stems from old guitar amps that had presence knobs that would dump highs to ground to give a darker, slightly muffled sound.

Like you said, it's the difference between it sounding like you're in a small room with a band or in a large venue where some of the clarity is lost.
I get 3-5 requests to interview from Amazon a week. I ignore most of them completely because I know too much about them. Guy I worked closely with at a certain cobbler in Beaverton Oregon you've probably heard of. He left for good reason and had lots of bad things to day. The managed to claw him back after about a year with "a huge pile of money" right after he had a kid.

Up front (before talking to the hiring manager) artificial coding challenge is a massive red flag, and I'll bail at that stage with most companies.

Last week I asked one of their spear fishers via LinkedIn if they're still doing that. She confirmed they are so I don't need to talk to them for a while.
Console gaming monitors also set a minimum bar of supporting things like 120hz refresh rates, HDR, enhanced VRR ranges, and lower input+processing+output lag. It's disingenuous to blanket assign any cost difference between a specialized product and a low end product to money made from ads. Yes, ads help subsidize low end TVs but it's nowhere near offsetting most of the overall cost.

The real best way to avoid this is disable it in the settings and filter the device on your network then use something like a Shield TV for the smarts, unless you particularly want your TV to be a console gaming monitor in which case that's a fine substitute just not an initial assumption to avoid ads. So far (and likely forever given the average consumer) it has not been cost effective to serve these ads out of band and jurisdictional requirements on requiring opt-out (or defaulting to opt-in) have been getting better not worse on top of that.

Note on something like the Shield (and regardless of display) if you truly want a 100% ad free experience you will need to unlock the bootloader and either patch the official OS or install a stock Android TV image. Either of these options will disable official access to certain content/qualities but at that point you're probably avoiding those sources anyways as such content sources are themselves covered in ads. That or an OTA adapter for non-smart content in which case you're still going to get ads OTA, but at least not additional ones from your viewing device.
Usually not with a default pihole setup. Most smart TVs hardcode a dns server of 8.8.8.8, or one the company runs (rarely), which gets around a default pihole setup.

See the recommendations on this thread for the additional work you'll have to do: https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/recommended-strategy-for-cli...

Some consumer routers may not allow the configuration necessary at all.
Not sure why this is downvoted. publicly traded companies are legally required to go for maximum profit for their shareholders. Without some Announcement like “we’re going to be making privacy friendly TVs, but customers will be paying more to make up for the lost ad revenue”, it would be pretty bad mismanagement for a company to not show ads somewhere in their consumer TVs when every one of their competitors is doing just that.
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It's crazy that me jailbreaking a device voids its warranty, but companies can make these kinds of updates without any real consequence.

Customers should have the right to return a device any time if they don't like a particular update to the product. I know it's drastic, but if companies can turn what should be a basic device into an amorphous system that starts serving ads without the end-users consent after purchase, that should constitute a material change to the end product that was not appropriately advertised.

This is the exact kind of thing that consumer protection laws should be able to cover.
Does anyone know how much would be the BOM for a dumb TV with a good 4K OLED panel?

I'm starting to think that if creating a crowdsale of a dumb tv panel might be a profitable project.
Even if we have a downturn, rents tend to continue to rise and housing prices don’t tend to drop more than 8% avg. obviously local markets can vary.

My point is, these things can last 40 years. Human adulthood isn’t that long, you might not want to wait.

Having said that, we seem to be in a constant state of unpredictable events that may or may not have financial impact on our family. I’m continually feeling uneasy about paying for a house that was 3/4 less 6 months ago, but it’s been going that way for years.

We are renting, have been for a decade, but had we bought our net worth would probably be less. Housing in our area didn’t rise as much as stock did over the past few years.

If the house is important to you buy it, but financially there are other ways to become an owner of something valuable.
One solution is not to outlaw, but tax and redistribute to help others afford a primary residence.
Just don't connect it to an internet connection. Although, I might add don't buy one that requires you to connect it on first use (I returned a roku a couple years ago because of this BS, since at the time I just wanted to use it to add netflix to my older TV, and it insisted I add a credit card before allowing anything else).

If you've already gone down this path, just block it on your wifi hotspot/etc. I've got a pile of ways I block things, from wifi blocking, nameserver blocking, to full blown firewall rules blocking IP ranges.

Solves untold grief too, no longer do my windows machines update on their schedule, they don't report usage metrics to MS/etc. Same with my LG tv, it doesn't get to talk to LG services except when I allow it (which is rarely). It just has some generic LG backsplash on the left hand side where it has in the past wanted to display ad's (although they backed off it at one point, but by then it was too late and lost its privileges.
If anything it was a cross between Twitter and phpbb forums.