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I think Apple is just not interested anymore in selling general computing. It's not where the big dollars are.

It's not that general computing isn't worth doing right. Many people still need to create deep content instead of consuming it or at best create some mindless tiktok nothingness.

And it illustrates the problem with opinionated design. If the designer's opinions don't correspond to your own, it's not useful anymore.
Have one person clearly in charge, but as the emails get more frequent with increasingly dramatic titles the other people can check in and ask if everything is under control
Controversial .. Would you care to expand on that ? I don't know anyone who would prefer to see adverts compared to plugging in a NAS / DLNA ?

These days there is nothing more than plug and play..
-T indicates "twisted pair". Vampire tap was 10BASE5 (later also called Thick-Ethernet, to contrast with 10Base2 "Thinnet" which used thinner coax and BNC T-pieces)
I’m not talking about sales here.

I’m suggesting that developers should know some of their users as people who use their software and talk to them semi-regularly. Especially when your company is small and still trying to find a market fit.
No opt-out. It must be opt-in - off from the start.

This does not stop companies from making it very difficult to stay opted out, or to disregard GDPR entirely. After all, enforcement is very rare.
I quite like my android tv on my lg display. It’s responsive with a nice solid feeling remote. I think there are ads on the screen but I’ve never given them more than a passing glance except once or twice I was recommended a good tv show. Most people outside of the HN crowd really don’t think about this stuff at all.
Just need a tuner? Although I haven't used one in a while. I use a smart TV that isn't connected to internet.
There is at least some controversy around the actual impact of cow's methane in global warming [0] [1].

I was mostly talking about humans farting in the park though. In any case, I guess the solution is to install catalytic converter in all human and animal exhausts, like we do for cars, I guess. Right? :D

[0] https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/biogenic-carbon-cycle-a...
[1] https://clear.ucdavis.edu/explainers/why-methane-cattle-warm...
I think fully automated driving is not worth the effort, yet. It clearly doesn't work to the point of trusting it implicitly to be safe and there are a lot of other safety features already in cars these days that help avoid accidents or mitigate damage to humans in accidents. FSD isn't a safety feature its a gimmick, one of many that attracted people to Tesla.

I don't see as many gimmick types of features (gaming, full autonomous driving, etc.) being introduced in upcoming models from other auto makers. I think in the short term (2-3 years) Tesla is going to suffer when a lot of other auto makers come out with their EVs. Many Americans choose their car as a status/style symbol. People will have style choices beyond Tesla. A key milestone for Tesla will be how they handle a design refresh. Many automakers go through these cycles every ~5 years with existing models when people get tired of old designs, etc.
How would it work with every other app sending data though?
"App <xxx> wants to access documents / network / blablah" kinda is.

I'm not saying controls on such behaviour are not useful. What is bad is dumping a truckload of popups on the user.
I like it. They keep making it easier to read more books!

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx
That was 10BASE5 aka thicknet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5
Strong agreement.

As a long-time sysadmin I despise "shy" error messages. Don't make me break out strace / Process Monitor / etc to figure out what specific file your generic "File not found" message is referring to.
4. On Android it has support for plugins. I have been using Firefox Mobile + uBlock Origin for years without any issues.
So what legislation? How many consumers even knowing that they are being tracked and advertised to are willing to pay the price so their hardware, software, and services come ad free?

If the US follows what the GDPR did, we will just have pop ups before every TV show asking us will we allow tracking.
Depending on the size and brand, it's price is similar to "smart TVs". The bigger ones are costlier.
(Sorry for the double reply, but as it's on a separate subject, I think it will make for easier threading.)

I watched that witch episode (skipping through the non-story segments), and I'm not sure what to make of it. What an odd storyline.

Here's what I kept expecting to happen: the witch asks nicely for her broom back, the man says "well of course, since you asked so nicely", and they all live happily ever after.

In a way, that's exactly what happens, but in a bizarre fashion and minus the happily-ever-after part. The witch does ask nicely and the man does return her broom, but then the witch turns around and is like "aha, I tricked you" (through the power of appealing to his basic sense of decency?) and flies off—only to drop her broom again during the final moments of the episode. What?

One thing I appreciate about Sesame Street is that it generally doesn't talk down to kids too much, and perhaps this exchange is an example of that. Kids aren't stupid—they realize that not all misunderstandings are easy to resolve, or worth resolving.

But I still can't figure out what Sesame Street was hoping to teach here!
"Puter - Your friendly neighborhood cloud computer!" I didn't even know Dropbox was in that business. Dropbox for me is syned folders (which I pay for) and I kind of ignored all their new features and projects.
Restaurant to be built controversially in San Francisco's 'public' park
Yeah, their captcha is everywhere for starters. Obviously a lot of other deps too.
Both my smart tv are not connected to internet, I just use chromecast and my phone for everything since 8 years. I just hope google never break this.
You find "interesting" that someone just wants to report a security vulnerability without having to accept any conditions first?

Funny, I find it interesting that they want to pay a bugbounty even though nobody asked for it. But I guess paying hush money is just cheaper than having to seriously fix the issue.
I think skepticism towards individual psychology papers is warranted given the replication crisis in their field.

I think the same is true of economics — and is the sentiment that person was expressing.
I thought that was Samsung. Of course it wouldn't surprise me if it was both.
Man with PhD in subject is pedantic about that subject on Hacker News, film at 11. ;)

There are, of course, stylistic norms, and a lot of those norms are shared across lots of kinds of Western music. The thing I'm pushing back against is a misconception I see a lot that people who teach music theory are arbiters of quality in music, and that music that doesn't "follow Bach's rules" is somehow less good than music that does. (That misconception is probably well deserved, because that is how music theory was presented for a long time. I think that has changed, though, and that you'd be hard-pressed to find someone in the field that holds that position these days.)
Less that travel is unusual more often than not it's that company data is not allowed outside of host country. This could be laws straight up blocking it or just the unfavorable legal risk that comes with it that makes your IT department implement stuff like this. Also it's great addition for multi layered passwordless security :) another tool in the box.
If you assume, without evidence, that an HN user is lying if they share a story outside your experience -- there is little reason to use HN.
> I’ve never given them more than a passing glance except once or twice I was recommended a good tv show.

Looks like the ads worked.
80 days ago it was "Show HN: I spent a year building a desktop environment that runs in the browser" submitted by a different user https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31611016
Add Sony to that list as well - and not just disregard for privacy, even total disrespect to their buyers, repeatedly..
It's fair to just say "Well it's not for that" if you're not a general purpose language.

Like it sure is hard to write a grammar checker in WUFFS. Well, it's not for that, it's a special purpose language, it doesn't even have strings, stop trying to write a grammar checker.

For a general purpose language this is a poor excuse. I think the best argument might be a desire to avoid the Turing Tar-pit where everything is possible but nothing is easy. C++ allows you to write a type that's generic over the floating point values, so e.g. Foo<NaN>. What does that mean? Nothing useful. But they could so they did.

In avoiding the Turing Tar-pit you must make some choices which weren't necessary but were, in your opinion (as Benevolent dictator, Steering Committee, Riotous Assembly Of Interested People, or whatever) more aesthetic, more practical for some particular purpose you had in mind, easier to implement or whatever.

My impression with Go, which I spent a few years programming but never really loved, was that it's main value was in being surprisingly efficient for that type of language. Particularly startup of Go is good, which would matter for gojq for example.
"Teachers should stop caring and just do the minimum necessary to get paid" isn't really a strong argument in favor of the status quo.
I got it running now and it's incredible how much of my interaction is being immediately reported. Having taken some steps before to block analytics, it's still going off like Geiger counter in the Zone.

I always find it amazing when speaker is utilized to 'visualize' occasional events.
Did anyone get it working on MacOS? I couldn't find the audio library in homebrew and gave up.
No they go on strike and punish everyone else instead of just their boss.
Apparently there are/were divisions of publishing houses that justified their existence by changing titles in the US vs the UK.

Famous one being the Philosopher’s Stone.
New model for predicting belief change
> they will start embedding SIM cards in TVs that can’t be disabled

Open up the TV and solder the antenna to ground. If the TVs refuse to work when there is no Signal, good luck with customer complaints - here in Germany, we have huge black-spots with no reception whatsoever (mostly rural areas, but people still live in those).
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/22/citi-projects-uk-inflation-t...

(alternate link)
Don't throttle writing useless messages to the Windows Event Log either. Fill the log with your messages to to the exclusion of all others.
I don't get the impression that the researchers were simply being lazy or attention-seeking.

They objected to having to sign an NDA, when there was no clear incentive to legally bind themselves in that manner.
I need a 4K TV since mine is only 2K but the only non smart TV I've found are at Walmart, the Sceptre brand. Does anyone know of any other?
Same with my Nvidia Shield TV which is aggravating.
The future is now, old man!
My LG TV has opt-in for tracking. That said, a lot of stuff just refuses to work unless I accept it. I refuse to use those features. It's a lose-lose situation.
Not having an TV is also a viable option. Around 2016 my last TV broke down and i have adapted to live without it.

When i say 'TV' i also mean to include Netflix and Hulu and other services serving the same purpose.
Jupiter images including auroras by the Webb telescope
You're right, it doesn't, and they're still quite awwkward. And I'm not even talking about pattern matching; just the fact that you can finally define a class as `X = Y | Z`.
Hi guys,

We created a simple cryptocurrency comparison game. Let me know what you think of it :)

We wanted to try something new - create a simple game that would be fun to play for a couple of times and also use it as a way of engineer-driven marketing for our other product, which is currently under development.

Is there anything you would add or do differently when it comes to the game itself or the marketing for the other product?
Raspberry PI + OpenElec + dumb tv + Pirate everything

Not one single filthy obnoxious advertisement. Ever.

Access to the WHOLE media library.

Do it today.
> S3 is simply unbreakable

Minor nitpick, but this is categorically not true. As a customer, one who proactively worked with AWS AMs, SAs, and S3 engineers directly before making the change, I still took down S3 by just changing how new files were stored in our S3 bucket. Yes, this S3 bucket was at the time the largest bucket (based on number of files), but still not “simply unbreakable”.
At least on my machine, it's a GNU Make... version 3.81.

I can only assume that's the last of the GPLv2 licensed ones. Classic Apple.
Deconstructing the Bakery to Build a Distributed State Machine
For what it's worth, the notion that God controls everything isn't something that I have ever seen reflected in the Bible. In the Bible, God directly intervenes at specific instances, and there are patterns to the circumstances around those.

I realize this isn't the more common popular take, but I believe the characterization that you're using projects God as some type of puppet master who's going around giving people cancer, making people rich, etc. I have simply never seen it reflected in any part of the Bible and because of that, I think the notion is a bit dangerous.

God changed my life when I was at an absolutely low point after 2 years dealing with something that I finally had to admit I could not control about myself. I asked for His help when I had exhausted everything that I, as a man, could do to overcome it myself. And He fixed me as easily as flipping a light switch in a way that left me with absolutely no doubt.

To this day I wonder if I had to get to a point where I had to put aside my pride to realize I couldn't do it on my own.
Two astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon
Another book is "Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach", although that was published in 2006 and does not include any networking (and the web site disappeared a couple years ago).

"Given the book's length, I chose to exclude several topics that are well covered in other texts. The TCP/IP stack is an example -- there is no "networking" chapter in the book since the Mac OS X TCP/IP stack is largely a derivative of the FreeBSD stack, which is already well documented. In general, information that is generic across Unix variants and can be found in standard texts is not included in this book."

The author, Amit Singh, was the original author os the MacFuse project.
I agreed until I read the part about Parker's mom being part of the team that investigated Trump for not renting to black people. Provides the motivation for Parker to be involved.
It sounds like they need a whiteboard session on something like “policy engine to decouple billing status from service status”.
The only exception I could think of was R-values, eg, "Vacuum insulated panels have the highest R-value, approximately R-45 (in U.S. units) per inch; aerogel has the next highest R-value (about R-10 to R-30 per inch), followed by polyurethane (PUR) and phenolic foam insulations with R-7 per inch." , quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_(insulation)#Example_v... .

From the same source, "an R-value expressed in I-P (inch-pound) units[13] is about 5.68 times larger than when expressed in SI units"; the latter being measured in K⋅m2/W.
The new Google TV launcher complete with ads on an expensive TV or a Shield is getting a hammering in the ratings, shows how little they care about customer feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Bonus points for making the preview images in the store not show the ads you'll see. If any other app tried to mislead users like that they'd be banned from the store.

Although it's not like we have a choice, they've also disabled the option to change the launcher on the newest Android TV version as well to coincide with adding the ads on the home screen.

I get we need to have ads to pay for services but come on, the TVs they're doing this to are not your cheap Aldi ones, they're high end Sony Bravias. Most of the ads are even for other paid services like Disney+ and Netflix.
Some vendors are also just less scummy in turning it off and the extent of ad services. Sony TVs are Google TV-based and explicitly ask for Samba (not SMB) TV analytics (and can be declined), and you can just outright disable the APK in settings. No ads in menus like Samsung (you do get the Google TV "recommendations" but that's a whole other problem).
There's a simple trick that can be used to convert between db and absolute values. Most engineers use this and may feel like magic to people unaware of it. First of all, remember the two calculations:

* 3 db = x 2

* 10 db = x 10

These are enough (the article mentions more but they are not needed since you should be able to create all db values from these).

Now, when you've got a db value, try to write it as the sum or difference of these values. For example,

* 1 db = 10 db - 3 * 3 db

* 7 db = 10 db - 3 db

* 12 db = 3 db * 4

* 17 db = 2 * 10 db - 3 db

Now, you can convert these to absolute values using multiplication and division

* 1 db = 10 db - 3 db - 3 db - 3db = 10 / 2 / 2 / 2 = 1.25

* 7 db = 10 db - 3 db = 10 / 2 = 5

* 12 db = 3 db + 3 db + 3 db + 3 db = 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 16

* 17 db = 10 db + 10 db - 3 db = 10 * 10 / 2 = 50

* 36 db = 10 db + 10 db + 10 db + 3 db + 3 db = 10 * 10 * 10 * 2 * 2 = 4 000

The same algorithm of course can be used to convert from absolute numbers to decibels:

2000 = 2 * 10 * 10 * 10 = 3 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 33 db

Notice these all are approximations however these are really good approximations and more than enough to very quickly understand what a gain of 50 db means!
And our political system basically guarantees the same people will be in charge until Jan 2025?! 2015 me would never have believed how rapidly things could fall apart.
I helped run conventions for the construction industry; we had a couple of shows where we had a raffle with prizes including a fancy pickup truck. It was amazing: the biggest prizes were always won by people who were directly related to members of the Board of Directors of the organization.

One of the big money makers for that org was "affinity group" insurance; they partnered up with a big insurance company to offer the members discounted, custom branded insurance and bonding (which was almost always required for the projects the members were bidding on, big business expense for them). Shockingly, that program ran OK for a couple years until one of the Board member's companies blew a job and somehow wiped out the entire insurance fund. As far as I ever figured it out, his company subcontracted with itself, defaulted and claimed a massive "performance bond" payment.
SurrealDB – Document-graph database, for the realtime web
Source : https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb

Features : https://surrealdb.com/features
The method you describe seems like the proper way to achieve this thorny issue.
"Different view" is a nice way of putting it. He's literally an alt-right troll.
Sony did too. I tried to bypass it by getting a relatively expensive nVidia Shield. It got home screen ads about a year later.
Oh, look:

> If you're in for a more advanced and comprehensive solution, you may want to set up your own AGuard Home server

It's an ad!
You have gravitated toward Roku even though the CEO outright admitted in a podcast interview (referenced in the article) that Roku is an advertising company not a hardware company?

You see those four hard coded buttons on your Roku remote that are shortcuts to streaming services? They went to the highest bidder. You see that non removable banner ad on the right side of your Home Screen? You see the advertisement for the Game of Thrones prequel right in your menu?

Roku is the worse offender. Yes we have multiple Roku TVs and I recommend them to almost anyone because they are cheap, Roku has the best SmartTV operating system, support for every streaming service comes to it first, and it has a long history of updating its software. But, the two TVs I use most frequently also have AppleTV 4Ks attached.

I also take a Roku stick when I’m traveling because it works with captive networks that require a login. With the AppleTV I would have to configure a travel router.
Try working as a “contractor” on less than full time hours. Say 3-4 days a week. I made the switch 2 years ago and will never go back to full time. I hadn’t worked on a side project for years prior, now I feel like I have enough energy to work on things I want to, hopefully something will become self sustaining in a few years and I can become self employed.
“ It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. Syme, too-in some more double complex way, involving doublethink-Syme, swallow it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory?”

George Orwell, 1984.
It would probably burst your eardrums also!

I prefer it how it is, very simple and effective, also I can actually gauge how much brave vs chrome etc. Obviously browser in my case will be heavier on google calls. But interesting to remember I have google drive floating around which I havent used in years.
It's not exactly the same -- these readers (and many other color e-readers released in the last decade) use a different type of e-ink panel, likely Kaleido. Kaleido has much better color resolution & depth, and shorter refresh times than the ACeP panel from TFA. However the con is that the colors look much more washed out and the display has less contrast overall and even limited color viewing angles. This is because Triton/Kaleido panels use color filters like any other LCD instead of actually having colored pigments like ACeP. ACeP is the only color e-ink panel I have seen which truly impresses a bit -- if you can stand the obscenely long refresh rate.
> How many times have you made the front page of a prolific website?

Tabloid papers have been on the front page here. I wouldn’t it hold it in such high honors.
archive.ph sends tracking to https://top-fwz1.mail.ru

no thanks
At home, I've never connected my TV to my network. The few firmware updates I've needed to do were applied using a thumb drive, and I use an AppleTV as my interface.

When I travel, I bring along an AppleTV and plug the HDMI port into their set. This lets me keep the services I subscribe-to and use them with their display. This has worked great until my most-recent rental, which had a RokuTV -- presumably setup on Wifi.

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.

This is the first time I've seen something like this. I'd always assumed that if you used the TV's UI and if it was connected to the internet, then you'd probably be subject to their ads and data analysis, but it never crossed my mind that they'd perform the same data-analysis over any signal passing through its silicon.

Is this commonplace or is Roku the first of what's likely to be many doing the same?
In my town you need a permit to run a raffle, even for a school PTA event. But it's never audited or anything.