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If you go this route, you will want to stick to older technology for audio and content peripherals. Otherwise you will have to connect it to the internet for bugfixes.

For example, imagine you want to keep a smart TV offline but you also want the latest greatest eARC features over HDMI 2.1; or you want that new Dolby tech to work with your PlayStation 5. That's stuff that came out in the last couple years. Assume it will take the TVs five years to work seemlessly. In the meantime you're gonna need firmware updates. It won't work out of the box. Or maybe it will, but with a noticeable lag.

Whatever smart TV model you're considering, read the patch notes and visit the fan reddits so you know what you're getting into.

An alternative is to get a gaming monitor; however these rarely reach TV screen sizes so if you're looking for 45"+ you're stuck with smart TVs
So glad I ignored the doom and gloom headlines about housing bubbles. Maybe there will be a correction, but prices will have gone up so much that buyers will still come out ahead, such as in the Bay Area, even if there is a correction. Home in some neighborhoods selling for $3 million vs $2 million just 5 years ago.
Not novel at all. SQLite3 can handle 100GB+ files on fast storage without breaking a sweat.
I think it can come from natural curiosity, strong fundamentals, and experience. Search for problems that don't have canned answers and try to solve them.

I think anyone can improve if they're willing to put in the time, though of course natural ability does help.

Think about learning to write a compiler for a programming language. You'd have to learn:
- Computer architecture
- Assembly language
- Caching
- Recursion and Parsing
- Type theory
- Translations
- Performance testing

Or attempt to write your own database. That would cover at least:
- File Systems
- Transaction semantics
- Algorithms

I think tackling problems like this would help a great deal. Or just look for areas where you don't know how to do something, and work on them.

Things like:
- How deeply do you know your favorite programming language?
- How easily can you setup a Linux server to host a web application?
- Are you an expert at your editor?
- Can you write a usable GUI, either for the web or a phone, etc.
> The NHTSA is tired of Tesla's hand-waving away their safety investigations into Autopilot by pushing stealth updates that fix specific scenarios in specific places being investigated.

Why isn't Tesla prosecuted for that? It's lawless!
I want a dumb tv but with one smart feature: the ability to download software emulations of these terrible hdmi sticks so I don’t have to spend $35+ on each one. Imagine a tv with no ports but the ability to pull the souls of these roku, fire, google tv, apple tv and probably a microsoft one soon.

I want the tv to manage all of my bluetooth connections and hot swap to the appropriate “OS” when i reach for each bluetooth remote/controller.

This minimizes the role of the tv itself to a thin layer of sensor/peripheral management and routing the video feed to the oppropriate OS
I have no idea why this is so contentious in the engineering discipline like it’s some unique question.

When you were in school, weren’t their students just far more capable than others? When you look at sports, aren’t there just players far more capable than everyone else (any pro player vs any non pro)? When you look at art, aren’t there just artists so much better than others (professional artists vs a hobbyist)? Salespersons? Dog trainers? Snowboarders? Etc

Every discipline has a bell curve of skill, and there are engineers who are just significantly better than others and it’s not even close (like any profession). There are limits, but software engineering isn’t anything special here where the idea of outliers warrants this much controversy.

Yes there are “10x engineers”, obviously, because every domain has skill levels spanning magnitudes. It seems like the only thing preventing recognition of this fact is ego (and to be clear, I don’t think I’m a 10x engineer at all)
Every time I read a slogan like "learn X in Y weeks" or "learn through games instead of lectures", I have to think of a Peter Norvig piece: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years.

Honestly instead of taking paid courses that promise to teach incredibly difficult subjects in weeks, just take one of the longer courses like Andrew Ng's that start with the fundamentals and are free. Bootcamp style education is awful.

https://norvig.com/21-days.html
That’s right! However this can wear off over time.
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Over the last two years, it feels like even undesirable places have had huge price increases too.
MacOS has really strong userland software, stuff like the Quartz compositor is genuinely quite hard to beat (neither Windows, x11 nor Wayland can live up to it's featureset and stability).

However, MacOS as an operating system really is a mess. Especially the XNU kernel, which is still an unbelievable amalgamation of disagreeing technology. Remember, MacOS is not natively a UNIX-certified machine: all of it's UNIX compatibility comes from a BSD-based compatibility layer that hasn't really been changed since the late-90s. Oh, and the coreutils? Notoriously garbage. MacOS ships with all sorts of outdated, downgraded, vulnerable and otherwise broken shell utilities. pico instead of nano, zsh instead of modern bash... hell, even something as simple as installing git is a 700mb installation with a mandatory reboot.

I'll give MacOS credit where credit is due (Apple had good design philosophies in the 2010s), but the actual operating system (see: functional network of software components) is truly awful, arguably just as bad as Windows if not worse. Just about it's only redeeming qualities are the things that Apple didn't make (like pf and process management. If you forced me to pick something that I found impressive, I'd have to choose Grand Central Dispatch, but even that isn't terribly impressive. It's mostly as if some Apple engineers decided to iterate on the fairly lackluster Linux process management. It would have been a miracle if they managed to make something worse.
Sure. THat's you're choice. I'm all for authors making the choice that's right for them. But I personally know many authors of non-fiction works who would not be able to find the time to write them if they weren't getting paid. It's not just a hobby for rich kids and people with bosses who want their employees to write books as publicity. It's also a job.

So it's nice that you want to give yours away for free. But don't ruin the business for the people who need to work for a living.
I have never used Awesome but have been on Sway for the past ~3 years. What features are you missing?
> Demand significantly outstrips supply in desirable areas

Is there a state that hasn't seen major price increases?

Edit: Just checked, and except Alaska all states saw at least a 20% increase in the last 2 years (and quite a few had 30-50% increases)

> how much of the population are looking to buy

So if mortgage rates go higher that should mostly likely drop, no?
Seems hurl is quite a different thing than browser automation though?

API/request level testing is great when appropriate, but testing what happens in browser won't be possible without using something like selenium, nightwatch or playwright
I think the question of whether something is a beta is different than whether anyone thinks it ought to be. There’s a lot of “non-beta”, but bad, software.
> the driver must be fully in control at all times

Yes, that's precisely what the manual said last time I checked. But it's not how Elon Musk has presented it, nor how innumerable Tesla drivers treat it.
It's going to come to hardware hacks and Faraday caging our houses to maintain personal control over the devices we purchase. Houses will have to behave like firewalls and you whitelist the device types you want to communicate with by explicitly piping them in, rather than the poor attempt at managing networks in software we have at the moment.
Does anything keep them from adding ads to your already purchased television at an arbitrary time in the future?
I agree so much with this that my blood pressure just went up.
and wouldn't it be great if the people on that committee acted in the consumers best interests?
Good analogy!

Here's the problem though: how to you hire for a "McDonalds". It seems good to be self aware about whether you're running a McDonalds or a Michelin star restaurant, but can you be honest about that with candidates and still hire people?
It’s a shame. I really wanted Tesla to succeed.

But as time goes on, their products become less impressive and their CEO is not helping the brand.
This might be a bit different from what you're looking for, but I highly recommend Dynalist.io; it offers every conceivable option for viewing anywhere any way you can imagine and offers 99% of the features for free (subscription plans are for duplicate backup versions as SimpleText on Dropbox or Google Drive, but I've never had any problems with their Amazon Cloud default).

The reason I say this is because I've read quite a few articles in the past on brain science stuff and apparently, the majority of brain anxiety most people encounter is from the brain running repeating cycles to simultaneously address/prioritize things that are on it's periphery radar that "can't be addressed immediately" ...

The simple act of quickly jotting everything down then acts as a sort of "Sudo Purge" and allows the brain to stop wasting cycles subconsciously trying to to address everything you have to deal with.

As an alternative, I find Cultured Code's "Things" app wonderful too.

Both of the services are as intuitive to use as a piece of paper with the option of dragging-and-dropping everything where-ever you want instead of endlessly copying-and-pasting and can be set up to either remain as simple as you wish or in the case of Dynalist.io (it was created by former Workflowy users who's versions they considered had become too full to easily navigate with Workflowy's "1-page is all you need" approach). To that end, Workflowy is great too, and both Workflowy and Dynalist not only allow for weblinks to interesting stuff you find/want to view/research later but Dynalist/Workflowy also have "save to" browser extensions so you can create your own private bookmarking service; in Dynalist you can pre-designate one of your pages as an "Inbox" where everything you clip is automatically saved to along with URLs and brief descriptions.

Dynalist in particular would be an "if I could only have one application" sort of deal ... you can use it for EVERYTHING from an organizer with due date reminders to project management to math (it has mathematical notation) to I believe music notation to coding projects to project management (you can designate pages for collaboration) to writing projects (it has a "word processing view" mode) to keeping notes/lists/recipes/images/whatever.

One of the reasons I would say it's invaluable for mental health purposes is that as you learn things that work for you, whether they be watching certain motivational videos or exercise routines or meditation routines or routines for taking whatever supplements/nootropics/whatever you find useful for your personal mental health, you'll more than likely want to have these routines written down and handy for days when "your brain doesn't feel that great" ... which is where an outliner-type list comes in handy for rapid reference.

Nirvana (sort of an online version of Things) is also pretty good, and if you find that too complex, "TeuxDeux" is great for clearing your head and making minimalist routines/shopping/to-do lists/weekly agendas in a very intuitive way.
This is very subjective. ( obviously ) You can go 10x speed in a direction that is pointless. Not all work equates to value. The best product is the simplest that makes the most money. Duct tape and hacks make money. There is zero value in going beyond that. Over-engineering is an epidemic. “cool” means nothing. Engineering is a tool for a job, it’s not a product in itself. If your internal parser fails when you see a comment in code with bad grammar and you strive to fix it, that is you being neurotic not useful. Engineers love to build kingdoms in the details that nobody gives a fuck about.
The concept of the "10x engineer" has vastly outlived its usefulness. Remember, it originally was a response to clueless non-technical management who thought that programmers were completely fungible—the type of thinking that led to early waves of offshoring based on headcount costs, and a willful ignorance that the details that technical staff spend their time working on actually matter.

But once you get past the pointy-hairs, all this framing does is set up a falsely quantitative comparison between broad swathes of engineers whose work can not and should not be compared in this way. Is it really any surprise that a meme created for the bean counters is going to draw ire and vitriol from passionate, diligent and opinionated software professionals?

There is absolutely no point in the general debate about what "10x engineer" is (or whether it really exists). Yes, people have vastly different skills. Yes, there are things which some engineers can do which others could never do. Yes, there are Dunning-Kruger cases without the chops, humility or awareness to acknowledge this. Trying to quantify and strictly define those things though? Pointless.
I write cheatsheets. Just the bare minimum stuff needed to get things done. When I refer back to them it's a lot faster than looking things up again in (e.g.) stackoverflow. My pandas cheatsheet gets probably too much use (damn that API).
Tesla thinking this software is production ready shows a complete disconnect from either reality or common morality.
There is nothing politically or scientifically incorrect about saying that parents who educate their kids raise more successful children.

It is both scientifically and politically incorrect to say that parenting doesn't matter, only the color of the child's skin.

It is just all around incorrect to say that groups of people raise worse kids intentionally due to culture. Children raised by uneducated parents surrounded by crime are worse off due to their environment, and their culture is a product of that environment. It is only by the collective will of society (e.g., promoting enlightenment ideals over the objections of the superstitious masses, which happened longer ago in some places vs. others by political chance) that this changes. It is politically incorrect to blame people who are in these situations instead of bringing about the change to fix it.
[flagged][dead] so I vouched for it. Hope you get some help. I try and keep a spare account going for times like this but it's not always possible or convenient.
Thank you!

The example is brilliant. Thanks.
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What is really missing in American cities are public bathrooms, like in Europe. Pay 25 cents and you get 5 min.
Wait so you want consumer features? Well there is the Samsung Smart TV we can offer you…
Thanks for the feedback.

I suspected as much in terms of the passive language being perceived as passive aggressive. I didn't want to come off as aggressive as most of the time I really like the person or their work and I certainly don't want to strong arm them into doing something they don't want to do.

I think your advice is good to try and personalize the story and be direct about it. I don't have any illusions that this will be successful but at least it won't fail in the same way.

That being said, I can imagine an organization that promotes libre/free work making a blanket email that does just that (I've even read a few myself). The reason is clear because it's the organizations mission and, in that context, direct language would be preferred.

Food for though. I do wonder if there is any strategy that would work.
I think I need to write a plugin that searches the current HN page for terms in a configurable flame fodder string list and adds `opacity: 0.2` to the row. Fanboy would definitely included by default.
> The one idea I don't like about 10x engineers is the rhetoric by startups or companies around hiring is "we're only looking for rockstars and 10x engineers"

Completely agree. That's recruiting/marketing bullshit. They're trying to appeal to people's egos, but probably have the opposite effect, as you say.

Also, I doubt one could actually recognize these top-tier engineers, at least not in today's standard interviews. But... I did actually job-interview a 10x'er for a startup years ago. It wasn't a standard interview but rather a long, casual lunch (he was a friend-of-a-friend). After two hours of talking about engineering/coding/etc, I started to suspect: "Huh, I think this guy might be a better than me." What I didn't realize is just how much better than me he would turn out to be -- it was amazing and a joy to learn from him.
Another reference for thorium salt reactors: https://www.thmsr.com/en/the-thorium-molten-salt-reactor/
That's the metric Tesla and the self-driving car industry would like to use, but I don't see why it's the most important. Also, it misconstrues 'most important' to mean 'all that's important'.

We could just ban personal vehicles to improve overall safety.
Not the OP, but there are some of us (I mean, I suppose I'm not the only one) who see paid street parking as unethical per se.
Sprinkle in some security by obscurity; “If we just use our own variant of the algorithm , the hackers can not use common exploits!!”

Scare of liability is another plausible reason. Nobody wants to be famous for picking the wrong default algorithm that exposed the whole internet. Easier to blame each individual user for choosing the wrong exponent or number of padding-bits.
Put the fear aside, speculation is important as a tool for looking ahead at what possibilities there could be. It's not like the OP was trying to pass the speculation as fact. Personally, I would rather think about the "ifs" and plan ahead than to find myself in the "now" with consequences I could've possibly avoided.
Windows 10, too. I think it didn't work in Windows 7, though. If my memory is correct, that means that it's not a super-new feature, but still relatively newish.
> introducing potentially lethal regressions in every update.

Meh. I mean, I understand the emotional content of that argument, and the propriety angle is real enough. I really do get what you're saying. And if your prior is "Tesla is bad", that's going to be really convincing. But if it's not...

The bottom line is that they're getting close to 3M of these vehicles on the roads now. You can't spit without hitting one in the south bay. And the accident statistics just aren't there. They're not. There's a small handful of verifiable accidents, all on significantly older versions of the software. Bugs are real. They've happened before and they'll no doubt happen again, just like they do with every other product.

But the Simple Truth remains that these are very safe cars. They are. So... what exactly are people getting upset about? Because it doesn't seem to be what people claim they're getting upset about.
Hire experts. You are definitely allowed to do this, for everything. Even your day job.

If you're starting a project or doing something complicated for the first time (ie, buying a house), pay someone to walk you through the basics and answer a list of questions. It's often cheaper than you think. The hardest part is finding experts who are willing to do one off work for a few hundred or thousand dollars.
Don't worry, they'll be 25 milion in 20 years. 50 million in 40 years, and a cool 100 million in 60 years. There's definitely lots of room for asset prices to rise. One could argue infinitely. Your property will definitely always rise way above inflation with no possible reason for correction.
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sorry for the OT post, wanted to cheer for ploomber - love it for writing pipelines, didnt know your EU based (guessing by ur username?).
In my case the Steam overlay reported either 13 or 25ms (can't remember) total latency (including video encoding/decoding) and the latency to the game server was 5ms. This put my total latency at around 30ms max which wasn't too bad and not too different from other players. Granted, it's not a perfect comparison (other players have high network latency while mine was input latency which can't be compensated by the game). It did however impressively exceed my expectations (I expected it to be completely unplayable) so I suggest you try it.
Back in the 1950s when the NHS was created, it was doing a very different thing to what it's doing now. People are living longer, there's more treatment options for everything, there's new branches that never existed - all kinds of stuff. The NHS was never designed for the sheer scope and magnitude of what it's doing now, and it shows.
Get commercial grade TVs

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> main advantage over other systems is power management

I can understand that appeal.

In the last 5 years I don’t think I’ve had a windows laptop sleep or hibernate as I would expect, not randomly wake up in the middle of the night, in my bag, and just sit there fans at full speed…

I’m tired enough of it to try a Mac…
But you’ve been assured with absolutely no evidence /s.
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There's no such thing as a visual learner
Same here, this would be very useful to me both directly and in conversations with my executive management.
Thank you, this is a great point! I am in the category of someone who needs linear algebra in order to apply it for day-to-day stuff, hands on not blue sky. Currently my primary use case is image filtering but a bit down the line signal processing will come up.
They are MPMC except for closing (which panics if anything writes after close), yes.
Yeah, what does that even mean? 10 seconds at 60 mph is like 3 football fields long... how do you tell a driver "Ok, in ten seconds I'm going to give you back control because something bad is about to happen?"
Perhaps it slams the brakes every time the AI confidence is low, that would cause a lot of phantom braking but it’s safer for the passengers (not the traffic behind). We will see how it goes once it’s widely deployed.

It’s great to see some good competition in the market.
That's probably a better option.

It won't be long before there's heavy taxes on EV charging, to make up for the lost fuel tax revenue. Were're not going to escape governments taking their cut, but if we can prevent a big slice of the revenue from going directly into private pockets, that'd be a good thing.
> even something as simple as installing git is a 700mb installation with a mandatory reboot

Mandatory reboot? I've never experienced that with the Xcode command line tools.
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