skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why are companies so stingy with wages and willing to outsource their core competencies in exchange for small gains but at the same time are willing to piss endless amounts of money away on ads?

Because there's a whole analytics industry that tries to demonstrate ROI for each ad purchased. And as long at that ROI is positive it seems like a no-brainer to throw more money at advertising.

I wonder how much of said analytics industry is bullshit. Especially since these analytics are often provided by the same companies that are selling you the ad space.
Tonga volcano eruption released more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb
It would be hard to use such a chip since it's so customized for Apple hardware, and it's likely only available in BGA(?) or similarly consumer-unfriendly manufacturing oriented packaging.

I would really love to see an ARM64 ecosystem similar to what exists for PC hardware with motherboards and chips and other parts available. The chip for that would probably be the Graviton or something similar, and apparently that chip is being sold to other vendors including high-end router vendors like Mikrotik.

Unfortunately I do think the M1 beats the crap out of the graviton in at least single core performance, but I think that's because the M1 is optimized for fewer beefier cores for desktop work loads where single threaded performance matters more. Graviton is mostly for cloud and other applications where most work loads are highly multithreaded or multi-tenant.
I have no proof, but I have a feeling nVidia is working to fix this problem. They were probably blind-sided and so it's taking a while, but I fully expect them to create their own launcher now to combat this. Their customers were quite upset about it.
I'm considering getting a 70" version whenever I get a house. While I've been renting I always just get the biggest and cheapest TV from the local electronics store.

Besides not having the usual crap, I would imagine these use higher quality component since the TV's might be on 24/7. Even that 50" at just over 1k doesn't seem that bad, that's usually what you would pay for a high end 50" anyways.
I don't know if you have been following the news about Apple expanding its advertising business. If you don't want a corporation collecting data about your viewing, you could modify your approach slightly and try kodi.tv. I have Librelec running on a RPI with attached SSD as house media server. The add-ons catalog is large and growing, but it won't have all the channels you might want.
In isolation, no. But given enough other actors that use the same firebase + can be tracked by adsense, they can infer connections useful for targeting you.
True but that was “just” a bad recession, but we never actually recovered from it. Now we are the brink of global war, reeling from Covid supply chain issues, and stagflation all on top of a world economy that has been propped up by central banks for the past decade while simultaneously exploding the money supply and essentially making internet rates zero.

This is the world on modern monetary theory. Not even once.
Not an option everywhere. Where I am, the digital switchover meant that most TV stations can no longer be received over the air.
I'd love to use Firefox as my daily driver for work. But due to lack of some extensions I'm not able to, mainly Tag Manager and Optimize, both Google products.
I think you're correct (but it's 35mm). I think mentioning the film size was an oversight by the author, or maybe since the camera was from 1971 we were supposed to assume.
"Automatic Content Recognition" is scary, and seems to work regardless of the source of the image.

https://www.bannertag.com/guide-to-automatic-content-recogni...

I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere in the tome of text you agree to when you startup or unpack the tv. So clearly, everyone is okay with it. /s
Multi-line BBSes were few and far between. As a very active BBS user in 1990, there were about 100 systems in my local calling area. Of those, I only remember 3 or 4 having multiple lines. A system like that was a serious investment: you had the $$$ for the phone lines every month, plus all the equipment for the system itself.
> with the smaller CPUs you can lookup exactly how long each instruction will take and thus get the timing right

Reminds me of the good old demo scene hack to get 18-bit color[1] back in the VGA days (and probably earlier) by changing the color palette per pixel through careful timing of the instructions.

IIRC you ignore the pixel values entirely, writing effectively a single "color", ie palette index, and then just change that single palette entry per pixel, timed so it's ready just when the output DAC is clocked to the next pixel.

edit: I forgot which demos I've seen this effect in, but searching for it led me down a marvelous rabbit hole where I stumbled over someone[2] managed[3] to get 1k colors over CGA[4], apparently discussed here[5] a couple of years ago.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array#Color_pal...

[2]: https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-...

[3]: https://www.reenigne.org/blog/1k-colours-on-cga-how-its-done...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21992870
There's no such thing as vuln-free software, it simply doesn't exist, yet
A more environmentally friendly air conditioner
I followed (and learned a lot) from this excellent post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/l9exis/how_to_downl...
> They're both abstract made up units that happened to be even on a random scale

They are salable assets with a price that people are willing to pay to acquire them. It is no more abstract than a hypothetical report on how a house in New York City is now worth less than a house in Wichita. Numerology implies some kind of mystical force. This is simply observation of measured human behaviour.
I wonder if a good chunk of the whole industry isn't a giant grift against advertisers.

Problem is they have to invade our privacy and ruin our products and media to keep the grift going since the ads have to actually be shown somewhere, even if they're ineffective spam.
Interesting. The protocol TMT, seems to have the idea of users having multiple nodes (which are referred to in comments as devices). I suspect if I were to use this in a product, I'd use nodes for application instances instead, so if a user had multiple apps (i.e. consumer payment app and merchant dashboard app) on the same device I could keep them straight. Seems promising.
Apple isn't going to supply bare M1 chips. They may let you buy a replacement mainboard for basically the price of a new laptop though.
You underestimate how many people there are in the world competing for attention. I guarantee you that there are many far more interesting stories which never see the light of day.
Yes, I understand that. Going back to the 80' or 90' you'd frequently be in a position where everyone had seen the same news, show or movie the night before or during the weekend, leaving you out of the conversation. That's no longer the case, there is so much content that it's not really weird that haven't watch something. Sports is so expensive that it's no surprise that you didn't a particular event. It's almost surprising of two people in an office watched the same thing the night before.

Also there are so many other types of media available, like video games, audio-books, podcasts, online articles, e-books. You can be just as informed and entertained without a TV.
Reading the DynamoDB 2022 Paper
If you are providing someone a service, and you rely on a third party to provide that service, and that third party screws you over, then by extension, you are screwing over your customers.

That is your fault, and your customers have every right to blame you. You are responsible for the due diligence on which providers you use.

Blaming a 3rd party might absolve you of some of the blame, but your still not providing the service you agreed to provide.

And before you try to suggest anything else, the condition here was "having customers you can't let down."

You have customers you can't let down. That's the context.
>When content was streaming from my AppleTV, Roku would overlay a panel along the bottom-part of the screen proposing that I can watch what I'm currently watching from a variety of other providers. This must mean that the TV set is analyzing the video or audio signal to fingerprint what the content contained, then matching it against a library of content to feed into its profile of my use.

My Roku TV specifically said it didn't analyze HDMI inputs, only Roku channel watching
I just allowed my Samsung TV to connect to the wifi (to access the local network, because the Steam Link client is better on it than it is on the Apple TV) and then, on my router, I blocked all Internet access coming from the mac address of the Samsung TV.
If energy costs a lot, then anyone who can offer to sell energy production obviously has an attractive product. The problem as I see it is that what's needed is plannable capacity. While there is always need for more capacity, what we need most is capacity that works regardless of whether there is water in the rivers or wind in the turbines. And that's not easy. Biomass and Biogas for example.
> Google is just horrible, when it comes to any form of support, paid or not. They make paypal look helpful by comparison.

We have been running production on Google Cloud for six years. We are not a large customer: our spend is in the low five figures. We pay for a middle-tier support plan and support has been excellent during this entire period. We very rarely need to take advantage of it, since the underlying systems are extremely stable and almost never cause us any issues (compute engine, GKE, GCS, Memorystore, Firebase, CloudSQL, etc). Just thought casual readers of this thread could use a counterpoint.
Most adults' eyes glaze over when looking at access logs, so I couldn't imagine kids being interested. (Maybe your kids are grown, but the visual from first read didn't come across that way).

Charts and graphs are the only way people not interested in data can even remotely become interested. If it's good enough for FPOTUS, then it should be a compelling enough reason to complete your idea.
I thought this was the motto of startups. "Move fast and break things." etc.
Yes exactly this!

It's possible to be polite while being mindful of how many interrupts you are causing another person.
How would invoice billing even reduce the risk of this outcome? Surely any system with more manual and asynchronous steps involved is MORE likely to result in Google erroneously claiming you haven't paid, not less? I don't grasp what the logic behind this suggestion is even meant to be.
Interestingly the Google exchange rate chart has historical rates for EUR/USD going back to 1982. Wonder where those numbers are coming from...
There is nothing that needs to be developed for renewables per se, it is already available: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy

It just needs to implemented!

Just imagine how much the politicians suck: Science has given them the solution for the energy problem, science has showed how to even make it economically, and has done that already years ago. All politics would have to do is implemented. But they cannot even do that ...
How much could the opportunities for the exercise of free will have been expanded through the application of modest constraints on it in relatively few cases?

Not even God can have omniscience, omnipotence, an unwavering commitment to free will, and an intimate concern for the wellbeing of individuals, without compromise. Personally, it's the tendentiousness of the arguments made to reconcile this conflict, not some logical flaw, that renders me skeptical, as they can be debated endlessly without resolution.
YouTube kicks off its podcast push with an Explore page
Highly unlikely considering it also contains the secure enclave and considering it's PKI-based security you will only ever get chips that are matched to a serial number. Pretty much the same way Intel chips are matched to Intel PCHs using the CPU ROM. You can of course get the PCH and the CPU from Intel, but you'll never get the firmware to load on them unless you're a mainboard manufacturer.

Considering the secure enclave is also used for data encryption, anti-theft and machine identification to APIs like iMessage, it's probably not a good idea to have them available on the open market in manufacturing mode anyway (unless someone comes up with a smart way to have PKI while also having free-for-all).
Show HN: A browser extension that places similar tabs and bookmarks together
Follow the title link for more details.

Install.

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tochunka-smart-tab...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/uk/firefox/addon/tochunka-smart-t...

Safari: does not support tab(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...) nor bookmark move(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...).
So, no extension for it. :(
I don't understand why you think that I assume anyone is lying. Nothing I said suggests that.
Hardware needs scale and distribution to be successful. The HN crowd can’t keep geek ventures like the Firefox phone and various Linux phones afloat.
> That is quite a jumble of overlapping / inter-locking patents. The goal is to prevent competition using similar technology. It looks effective. And to answer your next question, no I'm not in the display industry,

So you're not in the display industry, and yet you claim there's overlapping /inter-locking patents. Please tell the rest of us a bit more. What's inter-locking about them? So if I did: patents/search=ibm or search=microsoft does that also meet your claim? So let me guess, you believe IBM is blocking progress in the software industry?
I think it enables extending the features using JS/HTML.

E.g. A business process involving PDF's could auto annotate some information for a human processor to whizz through.
b/c BigQuery is our general data warehouse. We have some big datasets but also a lot of small ones that need to be joined and analyzed together.
But they can't access built in hardware on the TV to listen in.
Pay for Premium - YouTube is one of the few services that actually lets you pay to stop the ads, it’s worth it.

I wish that also fixed all the bad product design that results from building something corrupted by ad incentives.

You can also disable all tracking in settings.
I bought a Sceptre last year and one of the hilarious things about it was it had the "lite" Roku interface, just your input selections with no smart features. Those TV's are fantastic for the price assuming they don't fail (and even then it could be argued that it's still a good deal).
Ooooh, I forgot that Amazon owns Twitch. That makes more sense then.
If it's a trully open network that say is you neighbor's, then there's no way you can control this filtering.

The Amazon Sidewalk or whatever they had planned would be an example of this that might be less obvious than your neighbor just being bad at IT.
No, it is definitely doing something: Arresting people that protest for housing insulation.
But can someone explain how these people can afford to quit?

I’d quit too if I was independently wealthy. What are all these kids doing to feed themselves and pay rent?
So this is like the opposite of Amazon, who rents out their previously internal only systems?
True. But 5-years ago this national security reliance on foreign gas prices was well known, and little was done in the intervening time. The worry is that when the current crisis subsides that inaction will yet again fall back into favor.

The solutions are, in part:

- National gas storage reserve (to buffet price/supply spikes somewhat).

- Expansion of green energy.

- Programs to reduce usage (e.g. home and business improvements).

Luckily for the UK extremely efficient heat pump based heating/cooling solutions that offer greater than 100% efficiency exist[0]. It is just a matter of the political will to covert away from gas to electricity and then retrofitting homes.

[0] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/heat-pump-systems
Because of the Steam Link app, it's better at streaming good video quality than my Apple TV. I was really surprised by that but the app on the Samsung TV is wayyy better and doesn't drop half the frames.
It's a bit more real in Europe. Here in the Netherlands for many people their gas bill went up hundreds of Euro's a month. My electricity and gas rates are 2.5x what they were in 2020.
The average family spending a additional 10% of their income of heating isn't what i would call "nothing"
Ask HN: Are Oozie workflow “logs” intended for corporate fraud investigation
I work for a financial institution where my role is responsible for large-scale payments to customers. The creation of the files that dictate which customer gets how much is through code run as part of an Oozie workflow. The code, output files and Oozie workflow "logs" are stored in a production environment, where access is revoked after a successful production run. My question is around the intended use-case of Oozie workflow logs and whether they are suitable for the purpose of investigating corporate fraud or are they merely suitable for debugging? I have viewed the logs however they are difficult to interpret and I feel that they may not be fit for the purpose of an internal audit, should that ever happen.
Based upon the price of gas jumps 150% in summer time when Russia coughs.

This isnt a crisis. The taps arent even off and it's summer. Russia turning off the taps in winter would be a crisis.
Fake News and Democracy
"This paper argues that online fake news threatens democratic processes because it undermines citizens’ epistemic trust in each other. This in turn threatens to undermine the perceived legitimacy of democratic institutions as a whole."

"Major democratic institutions have correctly identified fake news as a threat to their values and processes. However, the danger posed by these online falsehoods does not primarily lie in their power to convince readers of the veracity of their factually incorrect content. Rather, the primary danger fake news poses to democratic values and institutions lies in the corrosive effect it has on trust among citizens and thus on citizens’ trust in their democracy."

"online fake news threatens democratic values and processes by playing a crucial role in reducing the perceived legitimacy of democratic institutions. This decrease in perceived legitimacy is the outcome of the primary effect that fake news has on citizens: even if its content is not believed, fake news can be a major cause of a loss of citizens’ epistemic trust in each other’s political views and judgment. Such a loss of trust in each other is problematic for democratic institutions since these rely for their acceptance and functioning on citizens seeing them as morally justified. Critiques of fake news often focus on citizens’ loss of trust in their mainstream media. While this is indeed part of the problem, I will argue that the main threat of fake news pertains to the loss of epistemic trust citizens have in each other. Fake
news is thus a moral problem insofar as we think of democracies as a morally special, or at least a particularly valuable, form of government. This paper is significant because unlike most discussions of fake news that assume that citizens are likely to accept these falsehoods as true it takes seriously the empirical studies that assert that most people do not believe the content of fake news and explains why we should nonetheless consider fake news a morally significant problem."
Correct, every other traded value has the same meaningless in reality, but psychologically cute thresholds. Same as articles about some stock price crossing a (round number).

> The key takeaway...

Yes, and that's the useful information.
I'm the opposite of that. I will go to pretty great lengths to avoid ads. They are incredibly annoying and often actively stupid. I am so much happier now that I almost never see a TV ad.

FWIW, mobile ads are worse. Avoiding them is easier, though. I almost always tell it when to show the ad and I can just look away with it muted for a while and do something else. I'm usually already watching TV while I play ad-based games anyhow. But if I had to actually watch the ads, I'd just stop playing those games.
> they will start embedding SIM cards in TVs that can’t be disabled

There’s no need to start jumping at shadows here.
At some point, these devices will be smarter than you about this. They will recognize a WiFi connection that cannot access the internet, and prefer an open network instead.
Care to explain the opposite views? They both come from the same party so presumably have lot in common as opposed to Labor and LibDems.
Why do you think Google - an ad company - was trying to get into the TV market?
Just for fun, I took a look at GBP/USD and it looks like that is tanking as well.

Meanwhile the ruble is stronger than it's been in 4 years.

For people in the EU/UK, how has this currency slide impacted your day to day?
This seems extremely tame by vulnerability disclosure fuckup standards.
It does work great, but for whatever reason, running Firefox on my Linux desktop eventually leads to CPU lockups and crashes. Using Chrome doesn't. I can't pinpoint what would be causing the issue, but it happens multiple times per day with Firefox. Even on a fresh install.
We're out here. Don't you dare tell me "happy birthday".
Unfortunately yes, I saw the news about Apple. I'm waiting to see what will happen concretely, but I'm not very optimist. We'll see and maybe it will be time to move to another device :'(
I have the same problems and it enraged me. It enraged me to the point where I back flashed the nvidia and blocked all domains to .google.com at the pihole for that mac address. Above that all NAT for DNS and blocking DoH and DoT. I do not need "new firmware" versions as the software I run on nvidia shield is just fine.

I unlock the shield, manually install the apps I want updated and ignore the rest. It has no external internet so meh if its got zero day exploits open.
At least with the Shield, nVidia wasn't the one that added those ads. It was Google. nVidia was put in a bad situation there, and I'm hoping they'll correct it soon.
Yes but apparently a bit of very real antisemitism is a small price to pay for having the left wing of capital in power instead of the right wing of capital.
I sprung for a stable of medium format (120 film) cameras some years back. eBay makes it easy to get decent quality cameras made over 50 years ago (many of the ones I bought came direct from Japan — surprise).

It was a modest investment in learning and money to take the next step and develop my own film. B&W at first (easy, forgiving) and then even color (sill easy but less forgiving).

I guess I was not interested in the darkroom + enlarger thing. I did that when I was young (elementary school, middle school) so I know what's involved. It could be fun but is less modest a move up in terms of cost (and space since you do indeed need a dark room — just processing the film was easy with just a changing bag).

Instead after processing the negatives, I go next to flatbed scanner and we're digital for the rest of the trip.

* I put some sample photos up: https://imgur.com/a/8CFskwN
They've had a noticeable increase in almost-clickbait titles in the last few years. So it's not like they've remained unaffected by the decline in news media.
the problem is more often in some specific chips that burn all the time (USB-C, battery controller), are rather cheap, and are un-available because Apple (and others) forbid the manufacturer to sell those separately.

there are plenty of videos of Louis Rossmann on this issue last years, if one of those 1$ chip burn the whole motherboard is good for the bin. the "good" news is that there will be a supply of M1 chips from these boards, if BGA (un)soldering is your thing.