skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disney+ is going to have ads?

... just googled it:

So they are _adding_ a new plan that's cheaper and ad-supported, and they are not touching the current plans. So nothing will change for my current subscription plan thankfully.

> Disney+’s ad-free subscription tier, which currently costs $7.99 monthly and $79.99 annually, will remain available.

and this:

> What’s more, if the Disney+ profile being used is associated with a child, no ads will play.

source: https://tvline.com/2022/05/17/disney-plus-with-ads-subscript...

edit:

A clarification for the advertising to kids things. Looks like it's no ads to preschool kids

> Regarding kid-targeted ads on Disney+, Ferro said, “Yes, we’re going to have advertising… to kids, but it’s going to be controlled advertising with a lot of parental levers to pull. We’re not going to collect data on that.” She added that there won’t be advertising in preschool content on Disney+ at launch.

source: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/disney-plus-advertisin...
How many Ferraris do you see every day ?

For every Ferrari you have hundreds of 1970-80s diesel cars which pollute just as much in every city centers
they will start embedding SIM cards in TVs that can’t be disabled

The real reason we "need" 5G, instead of better 4G, isn't so our cars can suddenly drive themselves and every hospital with be magically populated with surgery robots. It's so that every item we ever buy can spy on us.
They do exist if you look for them:

e.g. https://www.sharpconsumer.uk/electronics/tv/non-smart-tv-hd-...

(Edit: size and resolution admittedly not great)
> A SW update bricked mine, and if it was not for that I can't see myself replacing it.

And that's why they don't make them like that anymore.
Why are you not using it in your landing page?
It's just a psychological threshold, but because I don't follow currency markets that closely, it makes it very evident to me that the euro has fallen below a threshold, against the dollar, that it never had gone down to.
Which is key - a system that had money injected into it showed the results expected of increasing the money supply.

The same may not happen on a national scale if you’re circulating inside it.
if you want to remove ads... buy a product (seemingly sold at cost) from google?

seems odd
tl;dr; disable Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)

It also doesn’t help that my privacy is always (*ALWAYS*) wrapped in some platform specific jargon.
> 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.

This is discussed in TFA. It's "ACR" (Automatic Content Recognition), and it applies to anything you watch on that TV, via any mechanism you try. Yes, if you hook up your AppleTV and look at your own videos, the TV is watching what you watch.

Today, it's comparing a fingerprint to a database. Tomorrow a new model or a firmware update will have it shipping your pixels to the mothership and doing things like determining who else watched the same video.

And if this isn't enough, you also have to ask yourself: What is your SmartTV doing with the camera facing your hotel room and the built-in microphone?

If a manufacturer uses ACR on content you brought in through the HDMI port, do you trust them with a camera and microphone pointing into your hotel room or home?

If you do trust them not to abuse that, do you trust them to keep all their TVs up-to-date with security patches to prevent hackers from exploiting them and taking over the cameras and microphones?

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I can do this all day. Remember, it's not paranoia if there really is a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalism industry out there buying and selling data, and laundering data so that companies can buy it while having plausible deniability that they were knowingly involved in any illegal or brand-damaging shenanigans.
However those TVs are not easy to get and, like you said, they come with an increased price.

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.
Yes, and 100BASET as well.
If it would remove all paywalls and nag popups I would personally send my browsing history to everyone who wants to see once per month.
This is like saying learning how to make bombs is literally the product of being self taught, since school teachers wouldn’t have taught you that.
The very first paragraph:

> If you’re wondering which pills and how many of them Americans have relied upon to make ourselves feel better since Covid-19 arrived, the answer, in short, is yes.

Yeah I don't think I'm the target audience for this. Am I becoming an old man or has the NYTimes writing really dove off a cliff since ~2020?
I can't believe I typo'd like that. Fixed, thanks for pointing it out.
The issue is not trusting credit cars, but how you handle suspected fraud.

Google should know that credit cards can get leaked/stolen. Suspending an account without notification is not the right solution. At least give the customer a chance to defend itself, change payment methods or switch to a different platform.
If you're paying for Twitch Prime, but still getting ads, then what are you paying for exactly? Less ads?

Sadly I think it's what happens when companies are pushed to generate more and more profit each year. So you you start just a few ads to the paying users, because: "They won't mind one short ad" and then suddenly it's all ads all the time.

It does make you wonder exactly how ads are so profitable and which products are paying the whole thing. It almost can't be electronics, because ads apparently help finance TVs and phones as well.
I bought my first TV as an adult last year. I’m 44. I barely use it…

The problem I had with Smart TVs (Samsung then return to get the LG) are their absolutely abysmal system performance. Jerking, stuttering movement, menus that lag, a counterintuitive controllers, and streaming services usurping the experience; I do not want a permanent Disney+ button!
Luckily, Google has options to turn that stuff off. They could be lying about it, but it's better than generic TV brand which gives you no options, is a security nightmare, and is definitely selling every piece of data they gather to anyone who asks.
Of course, it’s always “just a joke bro” whenever there’s any pushback at all.
I'm really glad that our "smart TV" just pre-dates all of this stuff. It can't connect to a network - it doesn't have that functionality. Firmware updates? No idea if there are any.

Yuck, yuck, yuck.
Or Amazon Sidewalk for the mesh network version of this.
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.

It indiscriminately pollutes the environment, and inflicts harm on non participants by incentivising unbridled data collection.
Wage spend literally isn't price inflation though, and real wage increases (or employment increases) due to increased output aren't even likely to cause price inflation. Local enterprises sell more, so the workers get more money, with which they are able to buy more stuff. That is economic growth, not price inflation.

If you would like to argue that people earning more money is always and everywhere a negative outcome aid agencies should do everything in their power to avoid, that's a bold argument you're perfectly entitled to make, but it doesn't change the fact that it is not - by itself - price inflation. If the paper has computed price inflation wrongly that's another matter, but it won't be because they haven't created a new definition of price inflation which includes wages (or profits or units sold or unfilled vacancies or speculator activity or anything else which isn't price inflation, no matter how often it correlates with it or causes it).

Put another way, academics should continue to use definitions correctly, and not add fake caveats to stuff which is tautological to pander to the sensibilities of people who (i) don't understand the basic definitions (ii) assume that a reasonable starting point is to assume that if their view on what the basic definition should be conflicts with the academic's understanding, it is because the academic is acting in bad faith.
Google has some good tech and then most part of the cloud is just years behind. Want an example: you can't configure the gcp docker registry [EDIT: artifact registry] to cleanup images automatically (after a number of days or number of images or anything).

This is total standard in AWS and the ticket for this on GCP has been open for many years now.
I noticed something similar five weeks ago. Imgur would get stuck on the loading animation if I was in private mode but work otherwise.

It seems to work—at this moment, anyway—even in private mode for me now though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Reading this thread, I feel bad for the person you’re arguing with. It’s clear you are in the “knowledgeable enough to be dangerous” stage and no amount of trying to guide you will sway you from your mistaken belief that you are right.

Now to try one last time, you are misreading the spec and not understanding important concepts. Take the “woman golfing” emoji as an example. That emoji is not a Unicode “character” and is part of why it can’t be represented by a single UTF32. That emoji is a grapheme which combines multiple “characters” together with a zero width joiner, “person golfing” and “female” in this case. Rather than have a single “character” for every supported representation of gender and skin color, modern emoji use ZWJ sequences instead, which means yes, something you incorrectly think is a “character” can in fact take up more than 4 bytes in UTF32.
Here is what the static code analyzer Sonar [1] always says for Java:

> “In applications where the accepted practice is to log an Exception and then rethrow it, you end up with miles-long logs that contain multiple instances of the same exception. In multi-threaded applications debugging this type of log can be particularly hellish because messages from other threads will be interwoven with the repetitions of the logged-and-thrown Exception. Instead, exceptions should be either logged or rethrown, not both.”

1: https://rules.sonarsource.com/java/RSPEC-2139
Yup. It's kind of incredible how these platforms are fucking up their services. Like, all they had to do was to provide the content in a way more convenient than pirating, but they've managed to go down a path where the experience get more and more user hostile by the day.
> Obviously not. That message is expressing strong disagreement, not further agreement.

Not obvious to me. But sure, I'm confused all right. Confused at how lottin's comment could be interpreted as contesting Josde's, when it reads as a reinforcing restatement to me. Confused at your hostility and accusations of misinformation.

Perhaps you're confused about how online conversations work? Sometimes people reply with a restatement when they feel the original doesn't go quite far enough. I mean, lottin's comment was arguably ineloquent, but he wasn't "muddying the waters". Do you perhaps have some expectation that the act of replying implies disagreement? Is it the strongly negative tone that gave you that impression? It certainly isn't the content, since you correctly interpreted my own restatement of lottin's comment as agreement.

I'm not trying to confuse others, I'm trying to enlighten you, specifically, about what happened here so that you might reconsider next time before jumping on someone for something they didn't say.
We are doing that. We have a projector. In its case under the table in the living room.

Setting it up increases the transaction cost of watching a show/movie. The result is that we only put it up for the few cases when we deem it worth it.

And when we do, the experience is awesome.
If newspapers weren't allowed to report on abstract concepts I don't think we'd ever get any financial news. What is a dollar or a stock or bond or legal contract anyway?
Move to a bigger place then! The beauty of wfh is that you can live wherever you want! I have a very nice home office… my wfh setup is by many orders of magnitude better than what the office used to offer: better desk (nice electric standing desk), better chair, better monitors, better headset/mic, a quiet space!
And blog.pinboard.in shows default Apache stub...
Don't worry! Move up here to Scotland. The SNP assures us that all our problems will be solved as soon as we are independent!

(Edit: I probably shouldn't have made this comment. Let's just say I am not disagreeing with you.)
The problem is that you cannot turn off much of the smart tv junk, including things like ads. Paired with features such as the tv refusing to work if you don't periodically give it a valid internet connection (for it to send its cached metrics and download new ads, of course), which is slowly but surely becoming more common, and you're only marginally better off than just using the smart tv features.
> 256/81 (3.16)

Whoa, trippy coincidence. (16/3)^4 ~= 3.16
Ask HN: Will Bun JavaScript support child processes?
I am very optimistic about Bun JS and considering using it to run a low code system built in NodeJS, but right now I need child processes to fully isolate crashing server side code. Does anyone know if Bun will support child processes and IPC at some point?
If possible, the title on this one should be changed to match the Podnews headline: "Spotify never recommends Joe Rogan"
> What parity?

Parity in this context just mean a ratio of 1-to-1, doesn't it? I guess it could be synonymously replaced with ‶numeric equality″.
The Making of Sapiens – 7 Years of Solo Game Development
Old tech: wired, always work, can be fixed

New tech: internal irreplaceable battery, more drain on the phone, massive e waste. barely works

I'm using the same wired earbuds for 6 or 7 years while my friends already did 3 airpod exchanges in like 4 years because the battery keep on dying

Bluetooth Stockholm syndrome in fullforce, but hey, it's "progress" and "progress" is always good
Since this is also related to higher energy prices, do you think the invasion on Ukraine is also a contributing factor? Although if that were the case, we’d also see as high of inflation in other European countries?
Being very bad at any commercial initiatives, most probably I am way off, but I think there could be a market for some "enhanced" versions of those "universal" TV/LVDS boards to replace the internals of new TV's.

Something loosely along the lines of:

https://diy.viktak.com/2014/02/giving-new-life-to-lcd-screen...

I.e. in a perfect world you could be able to buy a (subsidized by ads) "smart TV" and (voiding the warranty) be able to replace the innards with a "dumb" card.
It’s not true. Disney+ is adding a lower cost ad free tier. The current plan doesn’t have ads.
> Disney+’s ad-free subscription tier, which currently costs $7.99 monthly and $79.99 annually, will remain available

But it will not remain available at that price. Instead that's what the plan with ads will cost, and the prices of the current ad-free plan will be bumped up by 30%.
EUR vs Dollar went as low as 0.82 ish in its early days (00) and was below 1 through roughly 02 so not a first no.
It is way more “youthful”. Adjusting to the technicolor gray lady is a challenge.
Early in its life EUR was below 1 USD for a few years, Jan 2000 - Oct 2002.
Android TV now also comes with forced ads (since rebranding to Google TV).

I was pretty upset when the very expensive Android TV gadget I bought (Nvidia Shield TV) specifically to have an external device without ads suddenly had them. They take up the upper third of the home screen.
Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there
Their leadership doesn't think it's important, so it's not. Since their leaders don't care, it's easy for everyone else to defer to an algorithm.

I needed to contact Pixel support and the phone and text buttons were grayed out for a week and the support funnel redirected to the forum where random people pretend to be Google experts. They later put up a banner that said there would be delays due to their CS location having a monsoon or something. I can't imagine Apple leaving people stuck like that.
Didn't happen with the bankers 10 years ago, I'm not sure that normal people have the inclination or fight.
Digital signage displays target a market that includes safety information in factories. if the TV there shows an ad instead of the safety content people may die.
That's not really the car with Firefox in my experience that is an issue that's common to chrome (and as such electron etc...). I haven't refreshed my Firefox in probably 5+ years and it's very snappy despite me having a lot of extensions installed.
Don’t buy hardware from an ad company - problem solved. Why do you think Google got into the TV streaming business?
Poor AWS must be close to bankruptcy then.

When my account started spending 300-400 USD monthly, I was contacted by an account manager, who was at my office for a meeting two weeks later.
YouTube's advertising strategy is pushing me to get rid of my SmartTV, or at least find a 3rd Party solution to completely block the ads. I was completely fine with one or two 6 second ads randomly playing before a video, or during a lengthy video. Then they added 14 second ads, which was very annoying, but bearable since it's about the same length as the two short ads.

But now they're advertising even if I simply open the app. Furthermore, they're "hiding" 14 second ads behind the shorter 6 seconds. I've even seen 41 minute advertising content. I'm guess they're banking on users leaving the app on "autoplay" to dupe advertisers into thinking that people actually consume this trash.

These days I just cancel every ad out of principle until the video plays. This takes on average 6-7 attempts. But now more often than not I just quit the app completely. So they are depriving their own content creators of views. And then they have the gall to present surveys asking what my advertising experience has been like...
10BASE-T and 100BASE-T require 2 wires to transmit and 2 wires to receive, 4 wires total. Actually it is better to call them 2 pairs since it's a balanced arrangement in which each pair signals come and go in reverse phase from the interface transformers and wires of each pair are twisted together so that any picked up noise can be canceled out.
1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet) uses all four pairs, that is, all eight wires of a CATx cable.
https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/me501

With commercial displays usually the problem is to find a dealer who is not doing B2B only

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234299003266

https://www.beachaudio.com/nec-multisync-me501-me501/
Thats (mostly) not offline-first. Thats offline-resilient. Theres a big difference. Offline first always hits the cache for its data so should provide the same exact navigation experience with or without connection, but the data is sometimes stale. Offline-resilient has a bimodal flow where it usually operates normally, then switches to the cache when connection is dropped.

The "no connection" banner is usually still present but shouldn't block UI.
Fairly certain that Germany pushed for the value with an easy conversion (2 Deutsche Mark = 1 EUR) and not for dollar-similarity.

Exchange rate was 1 EUR for 1,95583 DM
Warm handshake.
Not entirely true, e.g. deaths from natural disasters have been on a steady decline over many decades despite such disasters becoming more common and more destructive. In general our ability to continue improving human life expectancy has seemingly defied the odds - even in 2022 despite covid and everything else, average life expectancy is expected to improve on 2021 in most countries (including the good ol' U S of A).
It does feel a bit like quantity over quality though.
> Does that sound to you like "yes, I agree, and here is some further context"?

Yes, very much.
It drives just fine at night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTssX2VdKA

Progress this year has been pretty amazing. If they didn't progress or didn't try to make it work, then I'd call it a scam.

You're not reading that SAR chart right. If you look at the features and examples, FSD is level 5 in there. That's what the system is designed to do. It's not a lane assistant or a traffic jam chauffer. Again, it's level 2 only because it's beta and requires supervision, and the driver is liable for any mistakes.
Isn't Twitch Prime just the extras you get alongside a regular Prime subscription? I'm pretty sure Twitch Turbo is the no ads thing.
Well, this led me to learn something from my stupid comment. Originally the EUA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Unit_of_Account - euro's grandparent) started at 1:1 with USD. (and quickly diverged) TIL

EUA was exchanged 1:1 for ECU, then 1:1 for EUR, so that's a nice continuation.
A couple of years ago I did a vt52 emulator with an fpga, no processor at all (not even a soft-processor). Just regular ram and sequential logic. You can use a simple processor for some commands, but scrolling is best handled in hardware i think:

https://github.com/AndresNavarro82/vt52-fpga
My solution is https://nextdns.io/ with a special TV profile that has basically all adblock lists added to it, and then some.
That's what I thought we well, but TFA seems to suggest that some TVs may overlay ads on top of any video source:

"Vizio collected a selection of pixels on the screen and matched them to an existing database of content to find out what a user was watching and when"

"pop-ups would reportedly appear halfway through the show and be injected into the users' own content, such as home videos"
Best of luck. Although I would state that the English Civil War in many ways could be argued to be a mislabelled real revolution [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War#Whig_and_Mar...

Edit: For context, the parent previously stated that this perhaps may become the first real revolution in Britain.
That lower cost ad plan is the same cost as the current plan with no ads.
The demo is not really usable on mobile. Glad to see efforts to build new protocols, I think that’s going to be the only way to fix the web.
> 29% of facilities ProPublica contacted said the EPA’s data on them was wrong.

I don't think it's necessary to point out why this is not very convincing

> And why didn’t the government pay for an interface and analysis that the public could easily use?

Because "the government" -specifically, the executive branch- has its upper leadership torn out and replaced with a completely new bunch of people with hugely different ideology if not an explicit political interest in dismantling the work of their forebears every 4 or 8 years. This is most obvious with the recent Trump admin, but applies in degree to every single administration.

There used to be an internal, cross-disciplinary office that did API and visualization work for accountability reasons (unfortunately I forget the name). They did great work. It was dismantled and 90% of it was not replaced. The 10% that was replaced consists of (1) internal work (EIA being a good example, DOT being a bad one) that is driven entirely by the good will of employees who are fighting tooth and nail for any amount of budget to expose any amount of the work they do. And (2) external work by any number of massively wasteful contracting programs, like SBIR, where I used to work.

Reagan's SBIR program mandates a certain amount of money to be spent on tiny (100k-1m) contracts which are either useless or unused, because there's no way to actually convert anything to a long-term status. Most of that money goes to defense, but make no mistake that the work there is also completely useless. The whole program should be lit on fire.

> I think people believe their tax money could be spent more wisely and competently.

It can, if people stop voting for republicans who intentionally destroy the only functional programs and then divert the money to completely worthless contractors in the name of "free markets".