skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's frightening is that I can see on my PiHole the huge spike of requests that happens when one of my TVs comes on. Just the standard graph in the front page is enough to see exactly when the kids have turned it on.

Most of the requests are rejected though, maybe someone can say whether that is enough to protect me from corporate surveillance.
> If the Russians are so weak and incompetent then why is nearly every European country doubling their military expenditures?

Even being not very good at war they've been able to do a lot of damage and war crimes.

Plus, some of those countries have had pretty terrible militaries themselves; the head of the German army admittedly recently that their capability as a fighting force is very limited. A lot of Europe was basically coasting militarily because they thought war in Europe was over forever.
This is not true in general or over long time spans. Moreover, it is not necessary to get rich in order to get good value out of crypto.
Competition is the heart of a free market. Twitter is a so called natural monopoly.
> obvious advice: "make sure you're not on autopilot

That... isn't how "autopilot" (or humans in general) work(s).
I think this title says more about JSON than it does about Python.
> Don't have the energy to rice XFCE. There really isn't a DE that "just works".

That's not DEs, that's your distro which requires ricing.

If you install, say for example, Xubuntu, XFCE works as much as other linux DEs do.

Of course it may not be just working as much as Windows or macOS does, but that's same with all linux desktop environments.
I didn't think this was very controversial, but my guess is that people either feel this was irrelevant, they felt personally attacked, or they think I'm exaggerating. For anyone stopping by, all of these things have happened relatively recently, and no I don't necessarily blame Twitter specifically, but news has always been about trying to connect intense emotions with ad revenue, and social media platforms have figured out how to do this at a rate and intensity that's really dangerous.
I have a similar story. Although not quite as old, accomplished or rich, i started as a teenager and could retire comfortably at 50. One thing I don't see mentioned by others is that ultimately, helping and giving to others can bring huge meaning to life. One does not have to go far on this planet to see hardship, suffering and injustice. You could choose to work for a company that has a more direct impact on people's lives. Or you could volunteer in your spare time. When I retire I intend to work on software and IT support for community groups, non profits. Give free consultation to human rights organizations. Volunteer at local repair cafes, teach children how to hack on Raspberry PIs... Invest in small businesses in Africa, help them bootstrap. There is endless work to be done to improve the world, and frankly I find people who are less self centered (not a criticism btw) seem to be happier.
The premium for a dumb TV screen is about 500-1000$ though. Are you ready to pay that?

Because manufacturers will earn more than your 100$ with ads and all other smart features on you if they don't let you buy a dumb screen.
As someone who's never played Animal Crossing, this sounds a lot like my impressions of the game, only its more dynamic and customized to you.

>simulacrums of celebrities who want to be your friends, or experiences that are being tailored on the fly specifically for you

If Aunt Patty spends her time hanging out with and unloading her crappy opinions on AI Paula Deen instead of spewing them publicly on FB it could be for the better. Although it seems like it could only make people's filter bubbles much worse.
The "great patriotic war" is Russian propaganda - they had to find a term to distance themselves from the fact they started the war together with Hitler and only turned against him when he decided to attack Russians. Otherwise Hitler and Stalin were great pals.
The assumption that a target (or source) device has a buffer and encoding hardware capable of delta pixel encoding is would drive costs up to the point where HDMI would not be an accepted industry standard.
If you see any of popular video standards (both connectivity and formats like H.264) they avoid framebuffer and memory requirements like the plague.

Having said that, DSC exists and has been adopted by both HDMI and DisplayPort standards. But only on the highest end of capability because it costs a lot to implement on both sides.
I write lots of emails in english and I'm not a native english speaker. Having a smart email completion thing saves me lots of time.
US is not the center of the universe
No it's not.

I mean you can definitely argue for inefficiency in the MIC, but you don't see people literally just stealing millions from the allocated budget and shifting it to their bank accounts or megayachts.
The Fukushima plant was older than the Chernobyl plant, maybe we should just shut them down and build new ones to save us the cost of another nuclear exclusion zone?
> We don't dislike nuclear power because we hate the proponents of nuclear power and vice versa.

You're right. We need to go one level deeper on that.

Germans hate nuclear power, because they were subject to well constructed propaganda, that very well exploited Chernobyl events.

This propaganda was result of political plays, but did not called to any political views by itself. Thus the current situation, where most Germans think it's reasonable stance, while living surrounded by harmless nuclear reactors everywhere in Europe and burying thousands of people dying due to coal pollution.
>the Russian military leadership looks incompetent

Maybe because ... it actually is.
Crypto is not probably negative sum without resort to false premises.
How much more complex would that make each end? How long would it take to compress each frame?
The solution to the baseload problem is flexible demand. If it is cloudy and non windy, don't smelter aluminum, to put it bluntly. It is pretty easy, but we have to adjust our expectation of having 100% power at all times, and of the private sector being able to exploit it to 100%.

Solar, wind, water, geothermal, biogas and battery storage together are more then enough to "keep the lights on" at all times. And in peaks we can already produce more renewable energy than we can use. It is "just" a matter of investing into storage and flexible consumption.
death + π/2
For a late '90s/early '00s digital spec, that doesn't strike me as terribly surprising. Especially since it was a replacement for analog signals. Also means way fewer components and much simpler firmware.
I don't understand it either, but it's also because I don't know how modern TVs (2015+) behave when not connected.

But I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung and others would already be working on a solution where the TVs use your phone as a bridge to the internet. Or neighboring IoT devices (similar to Amazon Sidewalk).
> I would put more value in the opinions of people that have built or worked on real systems.

+100. It took me a while to internalise Nassim Taleb's point of skin in the game. Now that I exactly know what he means I've learned to more or less disregard opinions of non-practitioners.
Ukraine already didn't really have a navy lol.

As for mechanized force, they've been taking far fewer losses than Russia, due to having so many western portable anti-tank missiles + defender's advantage. And now that they're starting to get more armored vehicles from the West, things are looking up.

Russia expected to win easily and they've been getting hammered instead.
Most Rust "crates" are compile-time convenience features that add comparatively little binary code to the final build. The requests are plenty reasonable from that POV, although "vendoring" the deps might still introduce some complexity.
I cooked my brain with a phone. Many years ago I stepped off the plane in ATL with a European 3G phone, turned it on, wondering if it could connect. Held it to my head while it tried to connect. MISTAKE. Not finding base stations on its wavelength, it probably cranked up the power. I had a really weird and uncomfortable headache for two or three days after that.
Do not try this at home!
I personally try to avoid Nvidia dGPUs since I usually don't need CUDA and they tend to be a PITA even w/ DKMS drivers and are terrible for battery life.

I think the thing with the currently available Vivobook Pro 14Xs (M4700/N7400) is that they're currently last-gen Ryzen 5000 and Intel 11th gen chips. Even though I'd like to try out the OLED display, I'd probably go w/ the G14 atm - Ryzen 6000 and also you get 1 unsoldered DIMM slot so you could probably get yourself get up to 40GB of DDR5.

While Asus doesn't give a crap about Linux, there's a pretty active community (focused mostly on the G/M ROG laptops, maybe another good reason to go w/ the G14): https://asus-linux.org/

It seems like these days there are always si0x/s3 or other power drain issues w/ non-validated Linux laptops though. A good reason to support companies like Tuxedo, System76, Slimbook, Starlabs etc that at least make some effort that their EC/BIOSes actually play nice.
I always liked the LTT videos and was a subscriber. I don't think there's anything wrong with reviewing products and having a certain opinion, however Linus has a stake in a company which makes laptops whose main selling point is the ability to upgrade and repair the parts (Framework). He has a horse in the race. This doesn't automatically disqualify him from having an opinion, at the same time I don't value his opinion as much as an independent reviewer like Steve at GN.

That is troubling for me and I believe is not a super ethical practice!

Edit: Fix grammar mistake
FTA:

> I’m usually told something akin to: “well, just don’t connect the TV to the Internet!” But that route locks you out of firmware updates, and some TV makers remove functionality if you refuse to participate in their online ecosystem. Many smart TV GUIs also need to load before you’re even allowed to switch laggy HDMI inputs.

(although this is exactly what I did with the Samsung smart TV I picked up on a bargain, and I have zero complaints so far)
I wonder if mass rape in world war two could be verified by DNA analysis of the following generation to see how many newborn were the product of males from occupying forces as opposed to previous generations.
Just a built in sim card with very cheap data rates works. Apparently this viewing data is worth quite a bit of money on the data markets.
Did you serve to discuss the "history"? :-) "improve markedly after being banged around a bit." ... such a sweet child.
Is "IT" in the military the same as citizen professional/corporate? As in, mostly "administrator" level work or is it more expansive? I'm just curious in the sense that it either may be all encompassing like programming too, or perhaps things I never heard of. Just curious, thanks! I appreciate the reply.

I'm guessing you can do the ASVAB before "signing on?"
Software Patents – what was your experience?
I have a couple of ideas around software that (I think) are worthy of patenting. I want to know more about real-world examples of people, especially regular salaried software developers like me, who have successfully filed patents for themselves (not on behalf of and paid for by the organizations they work for).
I have only heard anecdotally that software patents are particularly tough to file and even more tough (and expensive) to defend.

Some of that anecdotal knowledge about software patents I have is:

- They're difficult to file and get approved.

- Expensive to defend (as would be any patent, I'd imagine?)

- I have heard that personal notes and diagrams regarding the idea can serve as a basis for the patent filing application.

Questions:

- What has your experience been like? What would you advise a novice with plenty of software experience?

- Did you file in multiple countries to make it robust?

- What other pertinent questions should I be asking?

I'm not particularly rich but have fairly good savings. I am in Australia working as a software developer.

Thanks!
You can't back up a whole country with batteries, or use it to flatten out the demand and supply peaks. Maybe with other storage, but I don't think it will work with batteries.

You would use batteries for example in a local small scale power plant, powering a small city district or a hospital or similar.
> Mokva air defence radar only looks one way.

That seems like a pretty big flaw, given how easy it could be to, y'know, attack from more than one direction at a time.
Dropbox Backup
Still makes no sense to me to spend energy into pushing Rust into Linux instead of creating some new better kernels, I mean having some of this big companies paying a few experts to do such a kernel and keep compatibility with user applications. If Rust is much better then C and adding on top the fact you start fresh with no baggage you should get a better Linux and everyone would use it since is safer and faster especially on servers.

I don't know of such a Rust kernel being worked on that is not some hobby side project but something more like Servo was, where you have paid experienced in domain developers.
Caste comes from the Portuguese word "Castus". There is no literal translation found for this word in ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts. The quoted article comes written from a time under British Raj where peoples backgrounds were used to further divide society so that they would not rise up against the British.

Caste in the same sense of occupational background exists in all cultures but was never used in such a divisive way like the British Raj did. For example people of the "Smith" surname used to be Goldsmiths or Blacksmiths. But the British put a sense of elitism into some communities in India, telling them they are higher than others. There is no Hindu scripture which says who is high or low, but merely responsibilities.

Skilfully sidestepping any explanation of the metric being used to measure “high”, the educated spiritual priests in British Raj times and intellectuals were all banded together into one and labelled "highest caste" because they represented the “highest threat” to Anglican domination and those who represented the “lowest threat” to the Anglican were pushed into the lowest caste.

During the British Raj of the 540 principalities existent at that time, over 400 were ruled by Shudra Kings (Professor Vaidyanathan, IIM Bangalore) which the British denoted as low caste. When the British left, the second largest landowner in India after the Indian Government, was the Church and thus it’s reasonable to note that the largest transfer of assets and land from was in fact from the Shudra groups (Lord Harries’ so called low-castes) to the Church. Further, there is readily available overwhelming historical evidence that the Dalits “the Untouchables” were themselves a creation of the crushing sanctions created and imposed by the Anglican Colonialists of the Church of England as is clarified below. The castes and tribes “notified” under the 1871 Act were labelled as Criminal Tribes for their so-called “criminal tendencies”. As a result, anyone born in these communities across the country was presumed a “born criminal”, irrespective of their criminal precedents.

Mixing castes was normal as it was based on deed back few thousand years ago, only recently caste mixing wasn't allowed. Some further reading:

https://pragyata.com/caste-system-pointers-for-the-social-me...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-gene-data-reveal...
Ask HN: Finally ready to share my personal work, how to manage expectations?
After several fruitful exchanges here on HN, I think I'm finally ready to start putting some of my personal work out there into the real-world!

My original "plan" (ie grand scheme) was to have everything figured out and perfected and then publish it all at once, fireworks and all. Needless to say I no longer think that's a good idea...

So with a slow start, I don't expect there to be any audience for probably quite some time, and I'm okay with that (it'll give me time to play around anyway). But then, what else does one do besides regularly posting content? Where does one get quality, honest feedback? With so little feedback, how does one know if the content's any good? And if one upholds to high standards (which I do), how can one present their work to reputable individuals without getting "sympathy" feedback? All of which then makes me wonder: What sets the successful "creators" apart from the rest? Quality? Timing? Luck? Network?

Sorry there's a lot of unknowns as I've never done anything like this before (in fact this was probably why I had avoided sharing personal work for so long).

So for those of you who have been on this path:

What's been your experience? What worked for you and what didn't? How did you manage to get good feedback?

Do you know of any good resources (books, articles, etc) that cover this topic?

Thanks so much in advance! :)
While the Bayraktars don't have stellar maneuverability they are stealthy and relatively small. They also don't use radar for targeting. For a ship to have good defense against such drones the radar's software needs to understand a drone's signatures and the crews also need to be trained for the same.

Given the Russian army's current level of performance and the Russian navy's...entire history, I don't have any trouble believing the Moskva was beguiled by a drone.
Of course it was present, like in any authoritarian system.

But you can see that the scale of fuckups for these two is nowhere near of each other. Modern evidence is Ukrainian war, which Russians believed, can win in 48 hours.
I feel like that is very hard to make work securely when the boundries are so ill defined. At the end of the day, untrusted code is untrusted. What happens when you use your math library to do some math on a security critical value?
Thanks, at first I thought it was spam, but a nice find.

A quirkily cut together show reel of a voice over artist.
I think some of them don't have an offline version of the "Programme Guide" (using data in the broadcast signal) any more.
I think is true for single detached housing, is it also true for larger apartment complexes? I bring this up because in Germany I believe most of the population does not live in detached housing or semi-detached housing.

With larger apartment complexes it may be economically feasible to pursue geothermal heat. In this case a more efficient solution could be a heating arrangement using hydronic heating combining geothermal heat, waste heat, topped off with an efficient large-scale boiler (the apartments need hot water anyway), and then pumped into radiators or underfloor heating.

And naturally the most efficient solution of all could be district heating.
Please take this claim and these results with a pinch of salt. spyql was not created with the goal of being the fastest tool for querying data, and it might be the case that the same tools with different datasets or in different use-cases outperform spyql. There might also be other tools that I was not aware when I wrote the benchmark (I just learned about a new one that we will be adding to the benchmark).

For me the lesson was that in certain problems (e.g. I/O intensive) the architecture/design might have a higher impact than the choice of the programming language.

spyql can both leverage the python standard lib for parsing json (written in C) as well as orjson (written in Rust). In this benchmark we used the later, which shows considerable performance improvements. Still, query processing (expression evaluation, filtering, aggregations, etc) are implemented in Python. I guess it's in the nature of Python to leverage internal/external modules written in a statically-typed compiled language to deliver high perfomance on core functionalities.

Here is a simple experiment with a 1GB file that shows that JSON decoding takes less than 40% of the processing time:

!spyql "SELECT avg_agg(json->overall) FROM orjson" < books.json

avg_agg_overall
4.31181166791025
time: 11.7 s (started: 2022-04-13 23:37:07 +00:00)

import orjson as json
acc = 0
cnt = 0
with open('books.json') as f:
for line in f:
acc += json.loads(line)['overall']
cnt += 1
print(acc/cnt)

4.31181166791025
time: 4.55 s (started: 2022-04-13 23:37:19 +00:00)
Github should really just do the right thing.
Can you please elaborate? These crates are no_std and provide functionality which seems useful regardless of on the kernel or not.

I don't understand why it looks bad from a performance or security point of view. These crate are well established and developed by competant devs that also care about security and performance.
If by "replace" you mean "nobodies rewrite existing crap into Rust", then yes.
I know some sunk ships in the attack on Pearl Harbor were brought back up and repaired...but I understand Pearl Harbor is drastically shallower than the Black Sea. Like 60 ft vs 1000 ft.
They mention power breathe device

https://www.powerbreathe.com/
> I hope someone at Google has a plan for this

Knowing Google the plan is to kill it and make a new thing, without options of moving, make it free so people flock to it and then turn into a subscription a year later.
I hope that never ever happens. We don't need a C-like mess where every library has a bespoke build process that doesn't work across OSes.
Given that I can easily see pixels on my XPS 15 4k, I wish this one had higher resolution. Otherwise, I am not sure how an experience would be different than using a few years old laptop?
Maybe I am not a target audience.
In software development we patch and upgrade libraries to remove security vulnerabilities.

With nuclear plants we first of all do not acknowledge any vulnerabilities and if we do find one we do absolutely nothing because upgrading safety costs billions or requires building a new power plant which costs 10s of billions. Running nuclear power plants in unsafe conditions is an everyday business affair.
"starting fresh with no baggage" also means starting fresh with no drivers. Having drivers for a wide range of hardware is a major factor in operating system adoption.
Number of forks, maybe? Or pull requests? Although those wouldn't disappear of course...
Sounds clever but it’s pointless because you have to guarantee that you have enough bandwidth for the worst case, in your scheme when every pixel is changing every frame, anyway.
We simply don't have better kernels. POSIX is the epitome of infrastructure. That's it. We did it. It's like asking for something more than Turing completeness - we have everything, just optimise the existing code. To that end, introducing Rust is a pessimization.
> Also, as a curiosity, why is every thread related to a X86 news, need to bring in the Apple M1 fan army and bang their drums?

What do you mean? The root post complains about M1 and thus it was brought up. It's not like an Apple bro army parachuted in and started comparing x86 to the M1
Why don't they call things for what they are - corruption?
It's been known for years that Gazprom and Russian financed eco organisations to ensure Germany is not energy independent.
It's shows how weak Germany is in terms of their internal security forces.
Crossbeam – Tools for concurrent programming in Rust