skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related, songs that are meant to be played by accident: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/j4he7lv/183-the-veno...

Example album: https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/album/they-tried-to-ban-this

He has hits like "Hey Gugle Play Music" and "Hey Siri Play Space Music".
Great, now they need to allow bootloader unlocking. Samsung has been notoriously hostile to 3rd party ROM developers and I think their custom voLTE stack still hasn't been figured out.
Did you read the article? The broadcasters are the ones that control the ads in this case. Not Vizio.
5GHz wavelength = 5.99584916 cm. The spacing of a Faraday cage has to be < 1/10th the wavelength you want to block. So for 5GHz that's 0.599584916 cm or 5.99584916 mm or less.

The cage material has to be made of a conductor like copper or silver. And it would probably have to be grounded too.

This website sells copper mesh with 0.63mm size 150mm x 455mm for £6.05 + tax (~$8 US). https://modelshop.co.uk/Shop/Item/Copper-mesh-woven/ITM6558

A 3m x 3m x 3m room is 54 sq m. You'd need about 791 sheets of the copper 0.63mm mesh + staples to nail is to the walls. Minus the area of the door. Cost about $6,328 + tax.
I own a "smart" TV (solely because none of the shops in my area sold dumb ones) but have never connected it to the Internet and never installed any software updates (nor do I ever intend to). It remains a screen. I use an Apple TV and another set-top box from my internet provider for streaming.
Salvage price for copper is ~$3/lb. Imagine a 100 dollar bill that weighs 30 lbs. That seems...inconvenient.
Sounds like a reason the retailer should either work it out with, or sue, the manufacturer.
There are plenty of dumb TVs out there, usually intended for commercial signage, conference rooms, etc. But they are more expensive.
If you're a fan of demakes you should also check out some recent ones made for the Apple II: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/demakes/
How that makes you entitled to cheaply renting a single-family home? Go rent a condo, it would be easier to move in a couple of years too. Or if you insist on living in a single-family home, temporarily taking a place of a family who wants to own the property long-term, then you'd pay premium rent to the owner which they'd have to pay out in taxes.
I don't know 100%. I'm not a lipidologist or god.

However, logically my post does not entirely rely on knowing the precise in vivo mechanism of statins and their causal health effects. We only need to see that in RCTs, lowered cholesterol doesn't cause increased mortality as these observational studies would suggest. That is a pretty direct test of the null hypothesis.

edit re your alternative hypothesis: what is this underlying adverse medical condition, and how is it resolved by statins? Every source I can find agrees statins work straightforwardly by inhibiting biosynthesis of cholesterol in the liver.
Writing code is not everything. You're going to work with a team, deal with managers, go to meetings, discuss and brainstorm ideas.

Lack of communication skills is a bug not a feature.
Yeah you have to use the appropriate strategy for the interviewee. In the case of a junior, you are looking for potential and teachability as you said. You tailor your questions towards that angle. I've yet to see any take home or live coding challenge that answered those type of questions for me. All it told me is what I already knew: they were more junior and needed mentoring.
You ask for Mr Slint to record your lp, you get a lo fi lp.

I know Kurt liked the Pixies, but after something as high end as Nevermind, who knows what he was looking for.
Tumblr seems to make enough to keep the lights on, which doesn't make sense since their content is all high def images and must be expensive to run. They're just as advertising-friendly as Twitter, although they are even more incompetent at running ads.

They also had more young subcultures that liked spending money, so native advertising like Instagram should've worked. The only young people who like consumerism on Twitter are the kpop fans, everyone else is a communist.
I somewhat doubt your assumptions about what homeowners think.

The busybodies I observe definitely and loudly put their own needs first, but they predict the opposite effect of rental units from you - lower property values. Therefore, they would probably welcome outlawing investment properties, just as you desire.

This dislike of renters seems mixed up with class or race consciousness. I think it's pretty widespread.

I don't think it's possible to avoid the fact that people who can purchase a home are generally more privileged than renters, and so being against investment properties is not a simple matter of social justice.
I remember seeing VHS tapes from the 1980s fail in the mid 1990s with the magnetic layer flaking off from the plastic tape.
"Employees Are Returning to the Office, Just to Sit on Zoom Calls"

Yep my team is split between 2 sites and works with teams in various other sites. We may have some meeting rooms set up, but we will still be using video calls predominantly.
There is no one size fits all. I’m a believer that office time should be optional. If I was an employer I want to get the most from my people. I want to empower them with the tools they need to get the best work done they can. If that is them working at home. Fine. If it’s having a dedicated space (office) that I pay for. Fine. They are adults and can figure out what works best for them. Why would I as an employer know how best all of my employees can work best.
Those sticks have probably as much processing power as whatever is inside modern smart TV's. It's still more than enough to modify HDMI output and add things that were not in the original source (like banner ads).
Nope, this is not a claim that is supported well. Yes sure there will be a handful of examples, mostly in promotor and enhancer regions, but insertions or deletions in introns and repetitive non-coding DNA will generally have very modest impact on phenotypes and these mutations generally cannot be extirpated by natural selection. That is why the term “junk” DNA is actually not that bad or incorrect in many cases.

If you prefer think of it as “spandrel” DNA in the sense used by SJ Gould.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/
If you're not familiar with Albini, he's worked lots of great bands. Pixies of course, The Jesus Lizard, Mclusky, his own band Shellac to name a few. Nirvana was good, but they've come to overshadow the really great music scene they emerged from.

It's too bad his work with Fugazi didn't work out. Apparently the band and Albini decided they both didn't like and they re-recorded it at another studio.
Code monkey serving Wall Street traders can take $1M.
Amongst major artists, Tupac is good at causing confusion. Is he Tupac, 2Pac or Tupac Shakur? Does it depend on the album? Is his alter ego Makaveli a different artist?
It's not much an edge case in the sense of those, which mostly concern software authors making incorrect assumptions about the data in fields, but rather a "not even realizing we need a field" case, but music library managers are often quite annoying when dealing with classical music.

They really want to fit everything into the artist/album/song scheme, and that doesn't really work well for much classical music. In classical music most of us would want something like composer/piece/orchestra/conductor/performers (the "performers" field would be for performers in addition to the normal orchestra, such as soloists or choruses), and it should be possible to change the sort key order among those fields.
The odd one for me is Pendulum - there’s two different Australian acts, both electronic, with the name Pendulum. For some reason the newer Pendulum really liked the name and weren’t bothered / ethically concerned that the Pendulum that made ‘Coma’ had already existed. As of today Spotify has songs from both artists under the same artist name.
As far as I know the simple SSH "port forwarding" (-L and -R) used here is just layer 4 reading/writing from one TCP socket to another (plus some multiplexing/encryption in between) and doesn't suffer from any TCP over TCP problems, only the ssh tun forwarding option (-w) is level 2/3 and has that issue but that seems to be much more rarely used.
I’ve not once been shown an ad just for using a Chromecast, so I guess it’s relative.
List of curated vector search libraries
Maybe some legal technicalities around needing a physical presence to do business or get a contract there?
It's extremely buggy and doesn't really seem like they fix anything.

The way they censored adult content blog essentially made them unusable - going to any link inside the blog redirects to its front page and none of the functions like search/archive work, yet they're all still on the page. And of course when I say "adult content blog" I actually mean "anyone's abandoned personal blog their AI thinks is adult".
Even before COVID all my collaboration with teammates was done online. (We use Teams now) I'm at the main site for my company; my boss and all my close collaborators are at a satellite location that's not within driving distance; my boss's boss is down the hall from me.

For me, the act of leaving the office at the end of the day is an effective "off switch" that I don't have while my work station and my gaming station is the same chair in the same room. And the office is an effective procrastination temptation blocker that I don't have when I'm at home and surrounded by all my toys, dirty dishes in the sink, and dirty cloths in the hamper.

WFH is the worst case scenario of "taking work home with you", which really isn't the way I want to live my life.

It never had anything to do with collaboration.
I’m usually against any legislation for government interfering in a free marketplace but this I can get behind. It won’t be a loss for the vendor since they get their TV back, just teaches them a lesson to not fuck with my stuff.

One question though, “liking” something is subjective and ripe for abuse. Use the TV for 5 years and then return it back because consumer wants to take unfair advantage of the law.

It can grossly backfire.
Single point mutations in regulatory elements such as enhancers have been shown to change the expression levels of multiple genes. These elements are under just as much selective pressure as any coding region.
I love the article. Microscopes are so cool. I hope you can share more photos about anything like microelectronic stuff, more bugs or whatever. Love your post!
I wonder what the "You suck, Flying Circus" sounds like.
Not as bad but still upsetting is the Google TV experience. I got a "top of the line Sony 65 A90J" a few months ago. It has Google TV. Turn it on and the screen is covered with ads for movies and TB shows. There's no way to turn them off except to pick "Basic Mode". If you pick "Basic Mode" then you are not allowed to use the Play Store and further, the "home" screen is just a large ad for "Google TV, ... sign in with Google to get apps etc...."

You can still slide load but they clearly want to be able to spy on you and shovel ads in your face. This for a $3k TV I paid for. It's as bad as Windows 11.

Further, Sony also wants to spy on you via some service who's name I forgot. AFAIK you can opt out (well, they ask you to agree with a bunch of stuff when you first turn on the TV and I didn't)

It's infuriating but I don't know where you can get any TV with high end features that doesn't have all the smart TV crap. You can get industrial displays but they aren't top end panels.
Pretty disappointing to see an entire article like this go by without a single mention of classical music. Also known as basically all music prior to 1940 plus a lot of the most enduring music since.
As long as the ad revenue is higher than the per-month cost of the connection, it's worth it to do
Same, well different locations, but same.
I'm not sure the average tumblr user (who seems to be a teen girl running a pink-themed account about something insane like pro-anorexia) has much in common with Marco Arment.
Ok. Ironically, your comment came across to me as a comparison, but I guess we were both reacting to the same sense, that it’s not a race.

In fact, I’d really love to learn Rust - GC always feels like a nasty hack to me - but my current use case and time constraints mean that I won’t get to use what I learn, and will quickly forget, so it’s just a waste of time for me at the moment.
Isn't it pretty standard to have video conferencing equipment in conference rooms or are there actually companies where people literally sit in a meeting room and dial in with Zoom from their laptops? Sounds pretty silly, and easy to fix with minimal cost.
Tesla Model 3 Aero Mirror / Mirror Delete Kit for Free
Gource ( https://gource.io/ ) is awesome if you want to visualize the evolution of a codebase fyi.
There is a meme something along the lines of "given enough time, any community will turn right-wing without heavy left-wing moderation".

I'm inclined to agree; it's not about the website format so much as how the admins/mods handle the community. See Twitter vs the various twitter clones, or reddit vs communities.win - the websites are designed almost the same, but the moderation policies are totally different, so the communities end up totally different.
I mean in this case the TV didn't start with ads, the feature got patched in via firmware updates. That's pretty crappy.
No, this is the wrong metaphor. You want the right metaphor: one brilliant coder, 10 total newbie coders, and five cats walking all over the key boards. And no delete function at all!
> Beauty is of course necessarily in the eye of the beholder

This is so true. Not is disparage other languages, but golang isn't beautiful to me at all, and neither is python. Yet Rust is nearly perfect. I'm strange. I get it!
I'd pay a premium for a TV that doesn't have surveillance technology baked in.
> have you tried quitting coffee? I was drinking a cup a day for years, and going to zero meant being in a depressed unproductive funk for 10 days.

I've found supplementing w/lions mane largely mitigates caffeine withdrawal symptoms. It also takes the edge off when taking high caffeine doses. It's kind of like a caffeine antidote. I used to abstain from it for decades because of these negatives. Now it's a quite useful, legal, and cheap stimulant I'll go on /heavily/ and off at will.
Yes but who's there and who isn't there in the initial culture probably had something to do with his biases. In some cases we are who we attract.
Left Kurt is the most noticeably odd thing with headphones, it just feels too much like he’s right off to my side. It’s just not the sound of the band in my head. The bass is noticeably different too, but doesn’t feel as wrong against my head cannon of their sound.
The supply of new media for LTO hasn't been stable...

https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hits_...
These days even HDMI has Ethernet on it so you have to make sure your streaming box doesn't export that to the TV. Or your TV could connect to your neighbor's WiFi or maybe the TV has a 4G/5G modem in it.

Some years ago there was a paper about transmitting malicious TV signals and getting code exploitation on TVs. That could result in a hacked TV that then starts attacking your streaming box to enable networking etc.
I don’t love the Apple TV (especially the remote), but every TV in the house has one connected. It makes watching TV tolerable. Not great, but at least tolerable
I wrote the multithreaded H.264 decoder in ffmpeg.

Any concept of "independently compressed blocks" is a compromise because you could've made them depend on each other and made the entropy coder more efficient. But I was talking about GPGPU, which is completely unsuitable for it either way.
> nothing about being LGBT is "closer" to polygamy than existing marriage.

Well, except that a polygamous marriage necessarily requires that 2 people of the same sex are married to each other. If the law still said that a man can only marry a woman, and a woman can only marry a man, then polygamy would be impossible without defining the number of people in a marriage.

(I suppose that technically marriage could be defined to be non-transitive, such that a man's two wives weren't married to each other, for example, but that would seem like an arbitrary and discriminatory restriction. Also, the government could give legal recognition to more than 2 sexes, but that seems like a point on a different slippery slope.)

Anyway, I think that for a lot of people, the insistence that marriage should be between one man and one woman was some combination of "it's always been that way", "that's how you create a child", and "that's the only type of marriage my religion allows", but SCOTUS set the precedent that none of those are legally sufficient to prevent a redefinition of marriage.

So it's not that one type of monogamous marriage is "closer" to polygamy than another type of monogamous marriage. The court doesn't have to take into account the wishes or definitions of already-married couples, and instead looks at what grounds the government has for refusing to grant legal recognition for plaintiffs who believe they are married to each other. I haven't looked at the specific rulings and legal arguments, but my impression is that states would now have fewer grounds for opposing a further, more expansive, redefinition.
There doesn't seem to be many WiFi 6e products at all. I was looking a few days ago because I wanted to replace the Ubiquiti stuff in my setup due to the lawsuit they filed. There wasn't much that came up in my searches for WiFi 6e APs. And expanding that to include routers as well gave me a couple more options but at an absurd price.
Yup. ARTIST_ID does not have a 1:1 relationship with ARTIST_NAME over time.

Another example... from 1976 to present day: Johnny Cougar → John Cougar → John Cougar Mellencamp → John Mellencamp.

Close enough for library software to store/recall them all as "John Mellencamp"? Maybe. But perhaps not to fans or historian or artist liking.
Am I the only one who read the article?

First: It's from April 1.

Second: What's described is not Vizio inserting their own ads wherever they feel like. It's a way for the network to show interactive ads in their ad breaks, instead of the usual "dead video".

So, assuming this is not an April Fools thing, the viewer doesn't get more ads, the ads they get are sometimes interactive.
I suspect China will swoop in with brands that offer 'dumb' appliances that just work. Quickly moving up-market to the high end, and eventually displacing all these brands.
I got some from IBM, of all places, so it's not impossible.
The firmware updates could come over a TV broadcast at some point.

Some years ago there was a paper about transmitting malicious TV signals and getting code exploitation on TVs, so that is another thing to worry about.
Yep… self driving forklifts… hopefully they drive better than Klaus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M
Do you recall the Hong Kong democracy protests and how they started using cash instead of electronic payments to move around the subway? Now imagine if we didn't have cash.
> There’s no such thing as a “protected group” in the law.

No such thing as a protected group ... sure, but there are characteristics that is legal to discriminate on the basis of (e.g. you like King Crimson too much) and ones that are illegal (e.g. you have a Y chromosome)

CA's definition of "underrepresented" does not reflect who might face discrimination; it reflects people who are underrepresented in certain kinds of positions in society and are prima facie concluded to therefore be discriminated against.
The TV could ship with cellular modems, and download the ads even if not connected to Wifi. While not done today, it could be how it operates in the not-too distant future.
https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...
The EMP from a nuclear weapon is mostly radio frequency and would be picked up by antennas, power lines and such. (I know an ex-military ham who always unplugs his HF/shortwave radio from the antenna and power when he's not using it because that's what they taught him to do back in the day.)

I don't see that kind of EMP erasing magnetic media.
I have enjoyed being able to choose when and why I go to the office (or especially when I don't). I struggle to imagine how forcing employees into an unpaid, stressful commute is paying off... tech profits have soared in the face of work-from-home.
I would only disagree with (1). I think a lot of the confusion comes from the fact that coding DNA is much easier to understand. Coding DNA essentially has one function, to code for proteins. Only the local sequence matters when considering coding sequences.

Non-coding DNA is much more difficult to understand in terms of function. It can act to regulate gene expression both through the local sequence (promoters, enhancers) and through long distance effects. For example, very distant promoters can be brought together within the nucleus and hence interact with each. These interactions are a result of both the local sequence and the sequence of the very distant interacting region. The interactions are also dependent on the concentrations of proteins/transcription factors that also interact with these sequences. We have no good way of modelling that kind of complexity.
Why don’t we make all housing more affordable by drastically increasing the supply of housing?
How do you do that you might ask? Look at that list of blockers and uncertainty. Stack rank them by importance and start removing them.

If we want more affordable housing the answer is supply.

And if we (god forbid) decide we want the government involved in building it we should copy the one place with an inarguably successful project. That’s Vienna.

It astounds me we can be this bad at picking policies that lead to the outcomes we actually want.
Author here. It's not a question of not understanding how databases work, but as a startup the focus is on moving quickly, not spending time optimising queries before we've achieved traction.

The table with index was setup 3+ years ago and has served us well until now, where we noticed slowdown for particular types of data.

The article is an exercise in diagnosing an issue with db performance and systemically working through it to the right solution.

In this case, understanding why the index wasn't effective, highlighting that column order matters for multicolumn indexes, and how big an impact having the right column can make.
Those are not close to top end TVs. They're old tech. Their 65inch QLED consumer model is $900. The signage model is $6400 (yes, 7x)

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/pro-tv/bh-serie...

https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/qled...
Isn’t that the case already
That's an insane strawman of an entire subculture.

It's like saying the average Hacker News user doesn't know what a computer is. You're picking an extremist, extremely small amount of users as an "average," despite them being nothing close to it.
Reputation only matters if it leads to a loss of sales. I’m sure ads don’t have enough impact to drastically lose more money than the ads otherwise make.
>>>>>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

>I suppose that self-reflection is too much to ask for these days, when we can simply externalize our fears and moral failings unto other groups of people

Self-reflection advocate, reflect thyself
There are fewer rich people than the capacity to build homes. Keep building homes until the rich stop buying them.