skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you care about privacy absolutely do not get an Android TV dongle. Get an Apple TV (though yes, they cost more. Maybe find a used one on eBay if you're particularly price sensitive)
Hey, random tangential question:
Why do you have `user-select: none` on the page? is there a reason that you don't want people to be able to copy/paste any of the paragraphs? Or is there some other reason

(I noticed as I found it jarring since I'll often select text while I'm reading it.)

EDIT/NOTE: Also, I imagine it might somewhat hurt things getting spread by word of mouth. If I wanted to share this with someone I'd naturally copy some sections, paste them into a message to someone that might be interested along with a link to the site. This isn't possibly with your landing page.
I know it might seem obvious to some that the bill is annual but I wish BBC/FT et al would be clear that this is an annual figure
Moving to Estonia
Germany's warning that inflation may hit or slightly exceed 10% by end of year, which, to be clear, is very bad, but is less bad than 18.6%.
> Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient.

There's an election coming up in Sweden.

One of the parties is literally advertising their platform with "more security cameras on our streets" (Moderaterna), and every party is keen to expand police power to have more surveillance and wiretapping without prior criminal suspicions (at least according to the "Election compass" on SVT: https://valkompass.svt.se/2022)
This corroborated with your replies to sibling comments makes more sense.

The thing is, in a big(ger) company, even if you pull in 5 hrs of coding per day, you will be limited by the average speed of the people working around you. You would soon find yourself running ahead of scoped projects, over-engineering, feeling an urge to re-write the whole codebase etc.
EU is lucky they invested in rail lines and trains. The average person can at least attempt to stop using gas guzzlers and keep living their life.

If the USD falls and oil prices rise, we in America are screwed. We almost had it handed to us this summer.
I wish we stopped at rain dances... Is there anywhere on the planet where there is enough rain right now? Because all other places seem to suffer from severe multi-year long drought. Many places don't notice it yet, but 5-6 years with too little rain and we will suffer severe food production issues.
I wonder if this was inspired by https://www.cameronsworld.net/.

This search tool has already helped me find new links for my diablo 1 fanpage. I am trying to compile as many links to old fan pages as possible. This is HUGE for me. I am incredibly excited!
I think people under, say, 35? remember a time not being online.. and think of the world as "real world" and "online".

Whereas those under-35? takes things online a bit more at face value, rather than what it tends to be - the loudest voices and most extreme ideas being amplified.
NFTs don’t have amazing unit economics with gross profit margins of 30% (or any unit economics at all), and incredible discounted cash flows (actually they don’t have any cash flows at all).

It’s like comparing the productivity of a med student on Adderall in a quiet library, and the productivity of a peeled russet potato sitting in the sun.
"can't trust Google"

There, fix that for you. If it's mission-critical, there are better customer-focused solutions out there than Google. Despite their massive brain power, they just can't seem to get dealing with users correctly.
+1 to Sceptre TVs! Recently (past week) bought a 4k Sceptre TV and it was less than $200. 60hz, looks great, the smartest feature it has is a clock you have to set yourself.

Just make sure not to buy the android or roku ones!
Who is the rich folk? Because any tax increases I have experienced so far affected me and I dont feel rich at all.
If you kill the truth, then there are no facts. If nobody has facts, they must trust someone to lead them. Then you can rule.

To get rid of a democracy, you habe to kill the truth first.

Timothy Snyder
Yes, I am relatively well off and actively support paying more tax myself. I would argue that we should target wealth as much as income, either way. Taxation is paying for a service: the service of living in a nice society. I want to pay to make the country nicer for me to exist in. I don't want people I meet to be struggling, I don't want people I care about to be suffering.

We don't have a lot of time, that's a reason to start now rather than delaying the solution even further: people will suffer the longer we pretend we can have the country function as a funnel to the wealthy instead of a place for people to live.
India has to do something about the fraud.

When I pick up the phone and hear an Indian accent it is frequently somebody who wants to steal my credit card or install malware on my computer. 20 years ago I thought Indian call centers were honest, now I know better

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/multiple-india-based-ca...

One of the first things that a company like Citibank can do to make their customers feel safe is make sure that customers don't hear an Indian accent. I don't mind calling somebody up and hearing it but if it is an inbound call I'll hang up right away.
Ask HN: Net Success Stories on Linux?
I just recently learned that .Net runs on Linux, but the only information I can find is how to install it. Does anyone have any information (links, github repos) of successful projects running on Linux?
Ultimate Zettelkast
Hi dmytrish that's exactly it! We are really close to releasing our WebAssembly driver (built in Rust), a native Python driver which can connect to and embed SurrealDB (built in Rust), and a native Node.js driver which has the same functionality as the Python driver (built in Rust). The plan is to do the same for the C driver in due course too.

The simplicity of what you described means that we can release a common set of libraries with similar functionality, but using a single common library.
> When you buy it, the price goes up. When you can't sell it, the price stays up.

How could you buy it, if it can't be sold? Also that article is from June, a lot has changed since then.
Right but that means you're not paying full price, since the ads subsidise it. So to modify the OP's point, people are going to need to be prepared to pay more for content and IMO we're already at price saturation point now.
I believe that proof is going to be more difficult if you're soldering stuff on the inside of the device.
I guess to some extent. I'm talking about the extension of this into higher-end ARM systems which still seem largely bespoke and proprietary.
I'm curious, do we actually have higher taxes than most other countries and if so in which specific areas?

Personally a well paid individual no dependants I find the Tory focus on cutting taxes ridiculous but I'm aware I'm ignorant of how we compare to other countries.
>But I guess paying hush money is just cheaper than having to seriously fix the issue.

They did fix the issue, though.
> Ten years from now, Europeans will drive electric (if they'll drive at all)

Most cars sold in Europe aren't electric: only 13%. Average car life in Europe is 11 years or something like that. So, no, ten years from now Europeans won't be all driving electric, far from it. Also something like 2/3rd of all europeans live in suburbs or rural: so, yes, they'll still be driving (or using horses). People enjoying the public transports in cities are a minority.
Cigarettes also feel great to the people smoking them.
Ok. We all knew that $7.99/month was unsustainable long term.
> "Renewables: The solution exists already but no gov't (in particular the UK) is implementing it"

The UK govt has done better than most on renewables in the past decade. Wind energy in particular. In 2020, wind power supplied 24.8% of all UK electricity, and this will continue to increase as major new wind farms - some of the largest in the world - come online in the coming years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingd...

The UK grid should begin to have periods of 100% fossil-free generation by 2025:

https://www.nationalgrideso.com/news/great-britain-track-per...
Did the link change? I just read through that landing page and didn’t really notice Rust mentioned. It’s mention a bit on the GitHub readme, but that would be expected as getting started with the code?

Also, people should care about the language something is written in, especially in OSS, as that implies a number of things. Specifically, what the ecosystem of that language is like in terms of maturity, how easy it is for you as a developer to get started with the project, what the build tool chain is and will work in your environment.

I know I disqualify projects that I will look at purely based on the language and toolchain it uses since I know it will be harder to integrate into my companies workflows.
I hear all these stories about people quitting like that, but how are they paying/how did they think they would pay the bills? I'm very curious.
On workplace surveillance / "bossware":

> Mazzoli seems to have either not used his product, or, if he did, did so under conditions where he was in charge of it – using it the way an athlete might use a stopwatch to time their own sprints, and not the way a boss might: to decide whether to dock your pay or fire you.

> This inability to understand the difference between using a technology and having the same technology used against you is endemic to the industry.

I think this is a key failure of understanding for the "tech is neither good nor bad!" camp: just as the Death Star clearly was never going to be used for mining planetoids, it's very clear how workplace surveillance tech will be used to harm workers, if nothing else because of how it is currently being used. Continuing to work on such tech just because it could theoretically be used for non-evil purposes is morally bankrupt, and something the industry needs to establish ethical standards to prevent.
> The royalty payment must be voluntary, as transfer mechanisms such as transferFrom() include NFT transfers between wallets, and executing them does not always imply a sale occurred.

So how is this an improvement over what we have right now? If the buyer and the seller may wish to do so, out of the goodness of their hearts, they can always send part of their sale price to the artist. So why are NFTs necessary in any way, if you cannot programmatically enforce it? (And you never can, the reason of which you already know: if I wish to do so I can make a transfer between my two wallets and a sale look exactly the same.)

At which point do these selective, and potentially intentional misleading claims about NFTs go from ignorant to fraudulent? Especially when you may stand to earn a lot by making people believe in your misleading claims?
You need to factor in the cost of training them and their quality of service. For example European drivers usually have better English skills or have worked in similar coffee shops before, used to driving in Europe, familiar with cleaning and construction regulations, ...
Damn, I had some fairly old opinion of Doctorow where I disliked him for some reason or other, but I am definitely revising that. I thought this was a great article.

I am certain “bossware” will accelerate the downfall of already shitty workplaces.

Very happy to hear Amazon is doing away with it. Strongly hope their workers unionize anyway. What kind of employer nickle-and-dimes a worker’s bathroom breaks? Not a good one, that’s for damn sure.

I used to see these job postings on LinkedIn for Crossover for Work. I was intrigued by the claim of $400yr salary. Glad I didn’t end up working there. Thanks but no thanks, I am not going to work actively oppressing already downtrodden workers. A quick search turned up this fascinating article as well: https://medium.com/@whistler_12777/heres-why-crossover-is-a-...

Fuck bossware. Fuck people who work to actively oppress others. Humanity for all, value of life for each and every person out there.

Rant over. Thanks for the link.
Would you be prepared to say that the 18% inflation [1] isn't completely due to GBP getting weaker than USD? Not being facetious, actually asking the question.

Because I'm sure all the US-based services will soon be updating their prices to match our rapidly weakening currency.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2022/aug/22/cinewo...
59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make inflation worse
I don’t quite understand how this works. They say it’s a new protocol but it’s still using a browser which would imply it’s layered on top of UDP or TCP.

Building a new protocol today is kinda like inventing a new engine that doesn’t require gas, it’s gonna need a giant motivator to be adopted and trillions of dollars.

The days of grassroots bootstrapping are over, no one has any reason to adopt your thing because what we have now is Good Enough(tm). Your new thing needs to be revolutionary AND have government backing across multiple governments and administrations. There is no other way, consider the electric car vs hydrogen.
Yes because without such great insight, everyone would have thought that TV was a necessity in life like food water and shelter…
As an American on holiday in the UK, I appreciate the Fahrenheit.

My impression of the readership is that it depends on the time of day. When I was in Vietnam, I would wake up to US centric posts full of comments. When I wake up early on the East Coast of the US (~6:30 am) I see more comments from Europe/UK. By mid afternoon, most of the posters seem to be from the US or at least the Americas.

I base this on about 5 years of daily HN reading. I infer the posters’ locations from spelling, grammar, but most often their own admission. Nonetheless, this is just anecdata.
I may be unsympathetic but I am most certainly not blaming the developer.
I should add that most of these options have installer scripts that take all the setup work out of the equation.
I trust Rossmann, He will give Apple (or any company) credit when they do something right. Apple lost my trust years ago.
You mean you cant do innovation without dumping the cost on society. Someone is paying for the price difference.
> Some may argue that there's no need to be dramatic and that there's nothing wrong in seeing an occasional ad every now and then.

Not just that, it also means having thousands of companies know every show or movie you ever watched:

> [tv manufacturer] shared IP addresses of its consumers with the data aggregators who then would find a person or a household to which it belonged.
Conversely 70% of the data is good and valuable.
> no supply guarantee since we left the EU (we are now "at the end of the pipe")

If anything, the UK is at the head of the pipe with regards to European LNG imports:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-26/britain-n...

I just hope that both sides are sensible: Europe is relying on UK LNG terminals to import gas; the UK is relying on European storage facilities.
I don't have time nor the information to second-guess possible future motivations of every company in a supply chain before buying a product. Most people won't even realise Google provide the software for a lot of these products.
break antenna would be easiest solution, but you might possibly void the warranty while opening TV
"dotnet x.dll" is how to run it. Not much to it. I run kestrel webservers on linux.
I've gotten in the habit of throwing an exception that results in an error in the UI if the problem is caused by data or something else the user can fix, raising an alert to be handled by the team if there's an issue that needs to be fixed by the team to prevent an outage, and sending daily e-mail reports for things the team wants to monitor (usually temporarily).

It's more about the categorization and impact than the implementation. Feel free to send me an e-mail if you have questions.
The headline is "Gas crisis sends euro back below parity against dollar."

Yet the article does not explain how a "gas crisis" leads to a weaker currency.

What does lead to a weaker currency? On the EU side, central bank accommodation in the face of inflation ripping higher. Germany recently logged a 37% YoY annual increase in producer prices:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-economic-outlook...

And the ECB has done basically nothing about it. Deeply negative real rates and little indication that the ECB has the stomach for any substantive action.

On the US side, there have been sizable interest rate hikes, which will continue at least until the midterm elections get underway. Real rates are still deeply negative.

That difference in rates attracts a lot of capital that might otherwise be parked on the EU side.

The US doesn't need to be a pillar of financial responsibility to attract the world's capital. It just has to be the cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper.
Paul Mason isn't a journalist. He was a journalist, then he left and swerved hard left into Momentum. He's previously been members of groups best described as Marxist or at least radical left.
I have not seen this done correctly anywhere. I have only experienced taxes getting higher and higher with nothing much to show for it. Meanwhile the really rich folk are also getting richer.
It isn't difficult to synthesise methane (which is what natural gas is). You "just" need lots of energy. If the problem was "Even if we have plenty of electricity, how will we get methane?" the answer is you just synthesise it. Right now Europe's problem is keeping the lights on and their people alive in the coming winter.

Like many European countries, it is usual to heat German homes with gas boilers. You could (and if we don't want even worse climate change, must) replace those with electrical heating, most likely heat pumps with resistive backup. A heat pump doesn't care whether the electricity powering it is from a solar panel or a wind farm or what.
I think Flet looks super interesting as an app framework that combines Flutter with Python. I'm not in general convinced that Flutter solves everything, or that there is any "one size fits all" framework. However this is a really compelling framework for some apps!

Interestingly it looks like, for the web app version, they have a permanent web socket to Python on the server, a bit like Phoenix Liveview. I wander if that could be removed by using PyScript to run the Python layer in browser.

I wander if the desktop version (and planed mobile apps) is the same, with a web-socket back to a Python server.

(Just noticed my typo in the title, it should be Flet, could a mod change it? It well passed the edit window)
Hi mijoharas, no reason to be honest! It's just what we've done for other sites we've built in the past - a design reason more than anything else!

You're not the first one to make this point, so we'll get this removed from our site!
Nitpick, but GitHub pull requests (which are
really merge requests, you aren't pulling anything) are named after the actual pull requests used eg. between kernel maintainers. ("Please, could you pull from ...")

Git has tooling to help with those, so it kinda is a git feature: git request-pull.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull
Just in case it helps anyone else struggling to understand this comment (let alone the blog post)

AVS was an addin for WinAmp, a Windows MP3 player app.

AVS stands for "Advanced Visualization Studio".

More info on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Visualization_Studio) but it seemed to be plugin that supported other plugins that in turn did fancy graphical "visualisations" (moving screensaver-like visual effects) based (?) on the currently-playing music.

Since the site has gone and the new Winamp site is content-free chrome, it's hard to say more.

AVS was made FOSS in 2005:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051102072333/http://www.nullso...

"DAW" means Digital Audio Workstation but honestly even the Wikipedia articles are so full of references that one is assumed to already know that I am not sure what the phrase means. As far as I can glean, a very fancy sound editor program.
Thanks! Do you find it useful on Linux? If so, what do you use it for?
I'd love a wireless version of one of these with mounting hardware. Stick it on the door to have weather and reminders before leaving the house in the morning.
One question about the article. What does the phrase “soup the negatives” mean?
This. The government is basically screwing over the OP and his customers with this new requirement. If you look on ebay, there's a lot less options than before. A lot of people are just quitting rather than deal with this. How they're making up the income, idk.
Two can play this game if they provide free SIM card they should expect people hacking and freeloading this built in SIM card.
I quit when office jobs ceased to exist around 2020.

I mostly do open source work and study other non-software bits.

If I could get an office job I'd probably go back.
Are these bindings for Dart? Or does it somehow compile directly to the various platform targets?
Such a strong pipeline of stolen Apple devices -> backdoor shady PC repair shops -> North Africa. I too got to watch my buddies iPhone’s live journey. At least it was a bit entertaining.
Especially problematic are so-called "fact-checking" services which often rely on technicalities to declare something true or false. "It was so hot everyone went to the beach" False, there are reports a few grandparents did not go to the beach.
"Not everyone received the reimbursement" False, although not everyone received the re-imbursements, you can re-apply for the re-imbursements in order to receive them.

And this is why few people use them to change their minds and either serve to reinforce what they believe or reinforce their belief to not believe their conclusions.
The features are very impressive, but why should I trust SurrealDB with my data over say, PostgreSQL?

Some things I'd like to know more about:

- Testing strategy
- Point-in-time restore?
- Consistency/isolation model
- Performance data
- Migrations
> Now, thanks to "luxury surveillance," you can get the same experience in your middle-class home with your Google, Apple or Amazon "smart" camera. Those cameras climbed the curve, going from prisons to schools to workplaces to homes.

All thanks to Big Tech, and by the looks of it if we don't do something to counter against this, we will also own nothing and we will be very happy under the eyes the technocratic elite.
Yes, it is indeed good in that it makes European exports more competitive, but on the flip side, imports are more expensive, which can mean inflation and/or increased sensitivity to supply chain disturbances. I’m sure it causes some other problems as well.

(not my area of expertise)
I moved from the UK to [redacted]. While I could not predict the pandemic nor the war in Ukraine I did expect things to get worse in the UK post-Brexit which is why when the UK voted to leave back in 2016 my wife and I started planning to move. It took a couple of years to get things all sorted and we moved in August 2018.

We are actually back in the UK this week visiting family who asked if we miss living here and my wife and I just looked at each other and said "nope!" in unison. It is hard to explain it in a short post here but the UK just doesn't feel "like home" to me anymore.

I am not saying [redacted] is perfect. But our quality of life is much higher in [redacted] than it was in the UK and we are both very happy we followed through and moved.
Clip control on the Apple GPU
> certain aspects that were hard to do with Golang.

Do you mind sharing those aspects?