skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Say women in tech want a male-free space? Well fine.

> The issue is, what then about "white men in tech"? Do they get to have a group to themselves, to discuss issues from [...]

An interesting observation that white men having their own space is an "issue" whereas any other collective is not an issue.
I recently got a small tuner box from my cable company. It requires both an ethernet connection and an ethernet-enabled HDMI cable ...

The nice part is that I can control the tuner with the same remote as the TV.

The not so nice part: my TV is now connected to the internet.
Somehow I suspect Louis Rossmann will still be non-plussed by this and release a video explaining why... and he makes solid points. When Apple starts allowing him to order all of the chips (like charge controllers) to repair his customers' devices then this is just lip service from Apple meant to do the absolute bare minimum to look like they are accommodating Right To Repair while giving the middle finger to independent repair shops who are only being held back by lack of access to parts.
>If you're paying for Twitch Prime, but still getting ads, then what are you paying for exactly

One free monthly sub + all the free games and DLCs. Cost me 4€ a month and I also have access to the Amazon Prime Video catalog. It's a very very good deal.

There is Twitch Turbo which removes ads but it's an entirely different product https://www.twitch.tv/turbo
Honest question: Where would you go?
And then some sellers converted 1DM = 1€
Cynical, sly enthusiasm. I just can't imagine 5G bands devoted to adverts passing invisibly through my skin. It is too much like the adverts in your dreams skit from Futurama.

Again, it is increasingly hard to separate satire from prophesy.
It's the principle.

This probably sounds over the top, but at some point it feels like they're saying they own you. You're paying them for one service, and they'll unilaterally decide it's not enough and they are going to make more money on you. But they don't do it via a price increase that gives you a fair opportunity to decide on the value exchange. They just start shoving this stuff on you.

And worst of all, it's your time they're taking to do it. The one thing there's never enough of, and that you'll never get back.
So, "it's a bit more lopsided than that", "things can change quickly obviously", and "non-Tesla electric vehicle sales are growing at a similar rate and potentially might outpace Tesla later this year", but Tesla is "the clear market winner"?
> Wow, that's a brilliant little piece of visual storytelling. No narration required for a child (or adult) to know exactly what's going on.

Well, not exactly. Just watching it again as an adult, I just realized that I don't really know what the man is dumping into wax mixer at 0:26. I'd always assumed it was wax, but now I think it's probably orange pigment.
Sony and nVidia are not ad companies.
Separation Logic
Thank you for still making it.

I often make comments I feel I need to, and later succumb to the stupid social network reaction of "oh no 3 people downvoted it, surely that means 3 people hate me and no one agrees".

Sometimes things need to be said regardless.
I consider myself very privacy conscious, bordering on the paranoid. I use FOSS as much as possible, avoid FAANG, and remove surveillance from my life wherever I can.

This tool shocked me. It exposes in a visceral way just how prevalent Google is, and does a better job getting that idea across than every video, article, post or comment I've consumed on the topic.
With tvOS 15.4, "Captive Wi-Fi network support on tvOS allows you to use your iPhone or iPad to connect your Apple TV to networks that need additional sign-in steps, like at hotels or dorms."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/tvos-release-notes...
I live in the north of England where temperature varies from 38F in Jan to 57F in August. It's pretty chilly for me, so I tend to spend a considerable amount of gas throughout the year. I'm renting a house, so deep work like insulation gets complicated.

My point is that even with a comfortable salary, I will feel ~£600/month in energy. I can only fear for people that earn much less than me.
What most engineers fail to understand is that when you calculate true reliability of a service you should factor in all such incidents. Most people are somehow convinced that outages due to billing issues "don't count". Service outages due to overzealous automated enforcement of some security rule do not count. Being banned from a service because of your politics doesn't count. The end result, however, is the same - your service is down.
Gifs, especially anime and cartoon gifs were an important part of my childhood. Everyday, for 2 years I used to spend countless number of hours hoarding pictures and gifs of animes and cartoons from different sites on the interwebs and save them in directories where each of the directory was dedicated to a particular anime and was named accordingly. I used the gallery view in folders on windows to make the experience even better (for myself) to look back on the beautiful collection of pictures and gifs I had wasted countless number of hours collecting.

Sadly, one day my dad called a computer technician to fix the PC cuz it was too slow. The technician backed up everything but the Documents/Pictures folder which had my precious collection. The folder amounted to atleast a few GBs. But alas, it was summertime and I was skating in the streets of Pune during which the surprise PC fixing took place. When I came back, freshened up and turned on the desktop, i was greeted by a new installation of Windows Vista and an empty Pictures folder in my documents.

Keep multiple copies of your precious data kids, thank me later.
Yeah offline first is absolutely an amazing user experience, especially once you start really taking advantage of preloading/eager loading. But it is far from free. The backend services and data modeling will be a large factor in how much you can do on the frontend. Conflict resolution is potentially an unsolvable problem. I dont think you need to replicate all backend logic on the frontend, but you likely do need some of it, which as you said, adds more cost to features (and usually has potential for bugs if you aren't in the same stack on frontend/backend).
The IBM 5153's True CGA Palette and Color Output
> But I can't imagine Google would know how to do anything useful (to them) with my random JSON blobs.

They're not interested in the blobs, but in the people accessing them. Their whole suite of "free" developer tools (google analytics, google fonts, firebase, ...) are just a means to get information about what people do online.
GP's reasoning is by modus tollens.
While I do see, and agree with your point, we're also at a time where it's honestly much much easier to not own a TV than say 20 years ago.
They can show you ads over anything they're displaying from an HDMI port.
Five different people jumping down your throat over that joke is surely the most ironic thing I’ll see today. And it’s only 8am.
You can still get cheap ones. And by cheap I mean TLC/Hisense level quality displays. Walmart sells Sceptre's for low prices and have no smart features, best purchase I've made in years.

We use a lot of Rokus here and my issue isn't the ads, its that every Roku built-in TV gets REALLY slow after a few updates, so now it's just easier to chuck a $20-30 device instead of having to buy an entire $300+TV.

Sure I don't get 120Hz fancyness but at least it's 4k and the picture is good enough for my consoles.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Scanning-electron-microg...

"electron microscope pollen pollution" showed a few similar papers. I did not read them, and microplastics seems a little... unexpected, but the general idea seems to be accurate. Kind of crazy.
> you have interrogated any poster who was ever mentioned patent problems, and demanded that they provide you with sources. It is not clear why they are required to do that.

OP made a claim. I asked for basic evidence. If that's interrogation, then sure. Are they required to do that? Not really. But it would certainly help convincing me. As it stands, it sounds like bullshit to me. It is the equivalent of saying IBM patents are holding back the software industry. Which patent, you ask? Oh, all of them. That's the answer you're giving.
Some would say they rioted in the ballot box, via the Brexit referendum.
Yes, but the moment you plug in an Android dongle, Apple TV or similar, you can just disconnect the TV from the internet, which should solve this.
Yes because consumers have history of paying more for quality in aggregate…

There is a reason that two of the five most valuable companies in the US are adTech - Google and Facebook.

How many consumers are going to choose to pay $300 more for an ad free privacy first TV?

How many consumers right now are willing to pay for an AppleTV over a $30 Roku stick?
The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes
I only watched a few seconds, but there is a minor difference between a DAW and a sequencer. This looks like MIDI, and I didn't hear any real sounds, so I would call it a sequencer. Maybe there is actual recorded sounds later in the video?

Still nutty amazing.
VPN is not a basic security feature. VPN by design is not supposed to provide security. It's marketing. When BlackBerry died, the reins on security issues were taken over by Apple. It can be debatable, but currently there is nothing more sensible.

The person to whom you are responding understand how old phones work and why they are dangerous. You probably left out all the other indicators.

Yes, I use the first-generation iPhone SE, which still gets updates.
Ditto. I got rid of windows shortly after they introduced ads in the OS. It really doesn't matter to me that there are technical ways of blocking them, I don't want to have to think about it or play cat and mouse with them.

When it comes to websites I really wouldn't care if they blocked my access because I use an ad blocker. I don't feel any entitlement to their content and they have no entitlement to what displays on my machine.
India farmer moves two-storey home – an inch at a time
> I can't simply choose to do that, because...

To delve a little deeper, this statement shows that it's still a _choice_, even though the choice is apparently a refutation of choice, which is interesting. Asserting that this construct simply _is_, where choice isn't there or doesn't exist, doesn't pass the smell test.

The fact that one may choose to live a life only for oneself were one left to one's own devices is simply commentary about that individual. But again, one may choose not to do that.
And you're mostly constrained to B&W. (Yes, you can do color but it requires a lot tighter control of temperature and processes generally. I tried it and wasn't worth it even as someone who did B&W processing/printing for many years.) As you say, darkroom work is a whole other--and largely different--hobby.
Doesn't "historic low" mean "lowest it ever was in history"? That's not the case (yet).
> If somebody steals data but you have a DLP tool you can just blame the vendor.

This is just about the main thing that bugs me with this kind of tool: sure you can blame the vendor, but the data is still stolen.

And companies are happy to have checked that box and won't bother implementing actually useful policies.
Now. Just like when food companies sells the same package as before (or a slightly bigger version) as "now with 20% free product!" and after a few months, they remove the free product discount. Price increased, less people noticed it.
Determinants of lithium-ion battery technology cost decline†
> the patents on e-ink really are holding the technology back while preventing affordable access

Once again. Which patent? Which technology? All of them? I'm left convinced that you're not basing your claim on evidence, but instead just on 'feelings'.
One thing I fundamentally don't get: all this endless shoehorning of ads into everything is dependent on there being a seemingly unlimited amount of ad revenue on the table.

Why? Do ads actually work this well if everyone hates them? What about ads shoehorned into marginal spaces and presented in ways that are barely relevant to the material?

The only ads I EVER click on are relevant ads that come up from a search in which I am looking for something potentially to buy. In media and platforms (software, OSes) I usually associate the presence of ads with low-end crap.

Am I weird? Are there tons of mindless ad clickers out there who actually buy based on irrelevant ad spam?

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?
Hopefully the current energy crisis (in Europe) will further accelerate development in renewable energy.

Seems much of Europe is still chained to LNG, and that demand is even wreaking havoc in countries which have been previously quite self-sustained, or really don't use LNG much themselves - with Norway being a good example.
I’ve lived in a lot of places, and have experienced the “utopia” of hyper-dense, public transit-based living that is so often romanticized here on HN. It has some advantages, but I’d never go back to it. I love having a car. To me, a car is freedom, comfort, and privacy. It makes transit not just tolerable, but pleasurable. It’s a home away from home. There are lots of places where cars are truly optional. I often wonder why the anti-car brigade doesn’t just move to those places, rather than try in vain to convince suburbanites to disavow one of the best parts of suburban living.
I have a Samsung smart TV but have never agreed to the EULA or connected it to the internet. Not sure if this is good enough but I never see ads or really anything unexpected, just good old fashioned TV. I do worry though that some other EULA I’ve agreed to might give them the ability to connect the TV through SmartThings or something similar without my permission. Doesn’t this seem crazy to even have to consider?
Leadership and Productivity: A Study of U.S. Automobile Assembly Plants
Might as well get annoyed at people for celebrating anniversaries. It turns out that noting arbitrary patterns in numbers is just a common way to observe changes in continuously-measured values.
> FWIW, it is still possible to get TVs without this stuff, albeit at a premium. TVs are still made for business usage in areas like conference rooms, wall displays etc.

Do they have tuners? I've heard many of those are missing them.
That would be true if people only do things that benefit themselves.

But that’s just not how humans are.

Soldiers volunteer to throw themselves on grenades.

Humans are social creatures who have evolved to be willing to sacrifice for others.
You’re right, it’s a moral imperative to show children that if you can’t legally get what you want just do it illegally…
> look back at VWs claims about how they were going to be an EV leader back in 2013, vs how long it took them to actually get the ID3/ID4 done.

VW was third in Europe by 2018 (or second, depending on how you view Renault-Nissan), and first by 2020, so... not _that_ huge of a miss, perhaps? The ID3/4 were their second generation; the eGolf and eUp, while far less ambitious, sold pretty well.
While a lot of people lost money during the banking crisis a lot of people were unaffected. The current inflation crisis means the bottom quartile will probably start to go hungry and be unable to afford to heat their homes.
It's not like those people were saving 20-30% of their income 2 years ago and they're now spending 20% of their income on heating and their groceries got 20% more expensive and fuel (for driving) increased by 50-100%.
Bought a cheap HiSense TV for my kid to use as a big monitor.

It literally will not work for any input source -- including OTA TV -- until it has been hooked to a network where it can register itself.

It appears to work afterwards without a network connection... but I cannot recommend HiSense at all.
Do you have your process of how to handle bug reports written down? I'd love to see it, especially if it includes what data you gather, like the commit that introduced a bug.

I guess it's probably in everything curl or will be?
From TFA:

> Self Service Repair for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro offers more than a dozen different repair types for each model, including the display, top case with battery, and trackpad, with more to come

So you can purchase the whole display assembly, top case (so basically the whole computer except the display assembly) and trackpads separately. Buying these parts in most cases will not be cost-effective and it's just pure waste to offer them instead offering components more granularly. So yeah, I fully expect Louis to roast this and he will be right.
update: Edited for typos.

A markdown file.

I do my daily journaling in a markdown file anyway (Today's Daily Note is `2022-08-22.md`).

I have a simple script to create today's Daily Note with `$ jrnl` and open it in my editor of choice (Which happens to be vim).
The Daily Note is created by copying a template file.

The first header of that template is a simple markdown table with a column for each hour and 6 rows (each row for 10 minutes).

The table legend indicates a list of symbols (~/>/@/...) for each type of activity.
As I organize my day by work-units of 1H (I work the Pomodoro way...), at the beginning of each 1H working session I just fill in the column of the previous hour with symbols representing how I spent it.

Hint: It should be filled with '>' symbols because that symbol represents the ONE most important task I need to achieve that day.

The second header of the template is a very short list of questions I force myself to answer every morning to reflect on my previous day (Which I call my 'Warming Routine'):

- What do I want to achieve today?
- Was I able to achieve my goal yesterday?
- What happened yesterday? - What am I grateful for?

Subsequent headers are the entries of my journal...

This minimalist tooling suits me perfectly because I tend to be very lazy so a lot of what I do isn't always properly logged. But entering 6 characters each hour (Remember the symbols for types of activity) is achievable even for a lazy dude like me :)

Another reason it suits me so perfectly is that I tend to live in my terminal anyway so it presents very low friction.

On top of that it's very easy to automate certain tasks: For instance, I tend to use a very light version of Zettelkasten to organize my thought/knowledge.
So I have vim scripts to search my Knowledge base and to follow links to notes.
So everywhere in my Zettelkasten notes, you'll find links to Daily notes in the form of `[[yyyy-mm-dd]]` which I open with a hotkey.

Mind you I didn't invent this method: I stole it from Ivaylo Durmonski and his [The Grid: Daily Planner for Better Time Management](https://durmonski.com/productivity/daily-planner-for-minimal...).

So all credits go to him.
Invasive advertising is a form of violence.
In fact that are. They are selling TVs cheaply subsidized by ads.
How do you block internet if it will join open networks automatically?
1874 kid's game is shockingly racist. I Googled – it's legit
It's down in the pictorial gallery at the end of the page. Click the picture to view the details about the game. "Chopped up N*g#rs" was a puzzle game from board game leader McLoughlin Brothers in 1875. Puzzle features a fleeing African American minstrel caricature ringing a bell. It's a rare collector's item that sells for four thousdands of dollars. It boggles my mind to think this game even exists, much less that it was from a very popular game manufacturuer and thus, probably found its way into countless American homes.
Does it mean we can now get individual M1 chips from Apple?
And AWS support is much better.
What kind of work do you do? If it doesn’t involve writing Mac OS software, chances are you don’t need to know about that lower-level stuff. Even if it does, most programs nowadays use higher-level libraries than those working directly with the OS proper, so you might not need to know details there.

If you’re supposed to use the Mac as a tool, I would just start using it as a tool, and Google specific problems/issues if and when I ran into them. You seem to know the basics from your Linux experience, so chances are you’ll be fine that way.

I would think “advanced/expert Linux users” wouldn’t know about strace, the IP stack, etc. either.
We all knew this was introductory pricing to weasel into the space. This was even the predicted timing.
Any programmer that knows how to code (and you seemed to have docker installed, so I'm sure you do too) should be able to create their own reverse shell from a few minutes to a couple of hours. Hence the blocking of netcat in this context (developer workstation) makes no sense.
>I couldn't recommend enough to buy an Apple TV (or equivalent) and block all Internet access to your "smart" TV. I did this and everything was instantly better.

I'd be worried that's a losing battle long term though (maybe even short/medium term?), same with other hacks like running your own DNS and blackholing ad stuff that way. At the ultimate level, cellular modules and fixed data plans are getting real cheap, and for that matter for those living in denser urban/suburban areas I've heard people saying some stuff seems to be extremely aggressive about grabbing onto any WiFi they can find. But I could definitely see a point where everything comes with its own 4G module just for advertising usage (and maybe firmware updates so they can hang a fig leaf of "easier, no configuration!" over it). If we start having to talk Faraday cages for our TVs that's really hard to get around. Even purely in software they could use fixed DNS IPs to bypass simple user DNS, DoH to bypass users then trying to force all DNS traffic through their own, VPNs, and all the other ways everyone normally try to punch through aggressive firewalling with.

You're right that at present it's often still feasible to get a hostile TV then neuter it. But I think it's better to just not have a fundamentally malicious device inside your setup at all if it can be helped. To me that's worth some money up front, and I appreciate that it exists.

At the core and unfortunately it appears data harvesting and advertising really is quite profitable, and in a further grim twist those trying to avoid it might be even more valuable than the average. Which means the margins may exist on something like TVs to make it worth it to amoral manufacturers to get fairly nasty. That's a hard race as everything gets more and more integrated, vs just rewarding those who don't do it. Or else get laws passed with enough fines to change the equation!
Murfie was the virtual Muppet character who only existed in the cloud. :)
It's hard to get good data on this stuff but the perception you get when doing a little digging is that we have somehow managed to produce a lot of mental health issues over the last decade.

My pet, conspiracy?, theory is that the always online culture is perhaps to blame. We have a lot of anger, and depression out there and very little except for medication seems to be helping.

There have always been anger and depression in society of course but the rate of increase in extreme outcomes from those is definitely rising. Mass shooting, teen suicide, online or real world mobs are all up everywhere. Something seems anecdotally to have shifted. The pandemic was an external stressor of course but it exacerbated something that seemed to already be building.

I have resources and method to address this stuff for myself but I don't have any ideas to address it societally.
I’m sure people will notice if for instance HBO only sold a version with commercials after having an ad free product since 1980.
And that ad-free plan will eventually have ads. Ads are infectious and will always spread uncontrollably once you let them in. Give an inch and they will take a lightyear.