skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm of the general opinion that people should be free to make their own sub-communities, and even within reason restrict access to others. 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, dunno, "dealing with tech Feminazis", or whatever white men in tech struggle with? What about white supremacists in tech? Elite SEs against influx of cheap junior labour?

I'm personally not a member of any such "selective" groups and for these reasons feel a bit ambivalent about them.

But as i say, go ahead as far as I'm concerned...
Don’t you have friends? For my social needs I have family and friends… and since now I don’t have to commute and I am home at lunch I can engage more with them than before! Life is so much better since I started working from home!
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I do and have since about 2007.
It depends if you also want a developing hobby. If what you enjoy is, say, walking about and taking photographs of natural stuff, then "Ooh, and I get to spend hours in a darkened room developing the photographs" might not be what you like about that.
I agree. Private enterprise has built some incredible data set. Google Street View is an incredible public good, and who knows what would be built on top of it if it truly were public, rather than owned by Google.

But some things can't really be built by private enterprise. The government can compel data reporting. You can pay credit card companies to sell you their data, but only the government should have the power tell every employer "you must tell us the names and salaries of all your employees". (Credit agencies essentially do this too, but that means they're big enough to require government regulation.)

It can be onerous, though, and sometimes unnecessarily so. When I was at a charter school, every here I had to compile a data set on the demographics of our students to ensure we weren't mistreating people based on race or something. It's a very important thing for the government to be checking on, but given that we already had to send all our student's demographics, attendance, and discipline accounts to the state government, it felt redundant.

I feel like the government has been moderately good at making these data sets more accessible, I'd love to see more resources put into that, as well as making their collection smoother. Building effective, efficient systems is incredibly difficult, and requires constant investment to respond to changes.

I harp on "infrastructure" a lot, and I'm coming to realize that what I mean is less "roads, bridges, and trains" and more "efficient, effective systems of all types".
> Is this commonplace or is Roku the first of what's likely to be many doing the same?

As far as I can tell, it's not only commonplace but ubiquitous for any new TV you buy these days.

I recently moved and had to buy a number of TV sets over the years to outfit various guest rooms. All LG and Samsung TVs I've setup over the past 3 years have a "feature" like this you can manually disable if you dig down through menus enough.

Then every firmware update the flag gets reset to enabled of course :)
I feel your pain at a deep and spiritual level. I have been in charge of at least half a dozen endpoint protection products over the years (deployment, configuration, management, etc.). Once a user experiences what you just described they are (rightfully) suspicious and sour towards endpoint protection.

Questions i would ask in your example:
1) Was the core business tool excluded from the more intrusive protection modules or does the tool have a significant risk surface?
2) What was the threshold set for quarantining? Does it make sense in this case?
3) Is/should your device be part of a "Developer" policy that is more permissive? Are all users of the tool impacted?
4) Does this happen frequently? If so, should definitions be manually pushed in batches so everyone is not nerfed at once.
5) What is the process for the developer to report/fix the false positive? Is the response time sufficient?

I'm probably forgetting a few. The point is, shit happens (especially with technology). You respond, fix, and hopefully learn. If shit happens a lot, its either because the tool owner doesn't give a shit or the product is shit itself. The delicate balance of security and business operations/innovation is all about weighing and evaluating risk/benefit.
>At home, I've never connected my TV to my network

The next (already there?) steps are the TV automatically scanning for open wifi network to leverage and/or having a built in 4g connection.
>Firefox can't even open Bookmark manager in a new tab, whole bookmark feature hasn't improved in 15 years.

For me this is a strength.
This simple, clean and objective article inspired me very much.

This is the good Internet. The type of content that nowadays I will not be find in the first page of a Google search result.
Would be surprised if they don't include 5G in order to gain permanent unfiltered access. Sending that sweet telemetry data has priority.
If there is actually legal force behind our ability to say no, then this is not a bad place to be.

Ideally we'd include in the law the provision to say no once for some extended period of time. CAN-SPAM is a precedent for this, I believe.
Even if you could smart TVs would outsell dumb TVs by a great margin.
I am back in the industry as a senior engineer, but I did take a two year break at one point in order to be a video game producer/designer at a small company.

I actually think maybe I should have stuck with video game production, it would have probably been more fulfilling overall, met a lot more interesting and creative people, had more fun more often, the games I'd work on would still be out there and playable in some form or another (as opposed to everything I've worked on for enterprise either being private and/or thrown away by now), less judged on 'making this thing work by the end of the two weeks or risk getting fired, and after that making this new thing work by the next two weeks or risk getting fired, and it will never end', but it felt like my tech skills were atrophying and at the time that was driving me crazy.

But I really liked that particular job and would have happily kept working there if the company didn't have a run of bad luck (and a few poor business decisions, in hindsight).

You can try something new for a while. The industry will still be there. There's a good chance you'll have to take a significant pay cut, though, like your salary could easily be 50% or less of what you're making now, depending on what your current salary is and what you'd like to try instead.

I'm not worried about bootcamps churning out developers. About fifteen years ago (might have the exact years wrong, memory is fuzzy) it was a similar situation, but universities were getting those people flooding in as computer science majors, and a good chunk of them were being filtered out and changed majors pretty quick (The professors at my university talked about it).

Programming is hard, and not a lot of people are cut out to be good software engineers, definitely not as much as there is demand for good software engineers. It's likely that a lot of those people won't be able to handle anything significant and/or won't last more than about five years in the industry (not all, I've met some great bootcamp grads, but they'd also do well if they took a few college classes if bootcamps didn't exist).

> Most weekends are spent trying to "heal" from the week, same for outside work hours.

Yeah, definitely feel you on that. I have so many games I'd love to build in my spare time, but when I have the time I just don't want to program anymore, I want to relax.
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I love my ATV 4K. But it’s useless for traveling since hotels require you to login and the AppleTV doesn’t have a browser. The Roku sticks get around this by temporarily exposing a pass through wifi connection that you can connect to from your phone/computer and log in to your hotel’s wifi.

The only work around with the AppleTV is to buy a second travel router.
A few ops lessons we all learn the hard way (2020)
Great movie, peak Eddie Murphy
To be fair, they're not wrong - the patents on e-ink really are holding the technology back while preventing affordable access to anything but the lowest specification implementations.

The justification for long running technology and drug patents is often given but it only furthers to promote aggressive capitalism and any opportunity for reasonable reform is quashed.
Oh, that is actually be quite sensible. I thought the would use LLVM to compile picolisp code but that makes more sense.

LLVM would only be a dev dependency for developing or compiling picolisp then, which is fine.
They already started showing ads to people with Twitch Prime a few years ago. It seems like its only a matter of time.
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. They're often found under labeling like "commercial digital signage" or "business display" or the like, they seem to often try to avoid using "TV" (if being cynical maybe to make them harder for normal people to discover and confuse them if they do). But they're often nice panels aimed at serious running hours, without this sort of junk (which would give enterprise IT conniptions) and can have very useful feature support like 802.1x authentication which so many devices still lack. Players like NEC will even advertise their use of an RPi compute and wink at lack of spyware [0] for some of their products, but lots of major "smart TV" providers also have a commercial lineup.

I think they're well worth considering, particularly for the HN crowd, granted I suppose for people who truly want built-in netflix or the like without connecting something like a Roku or Apple TV maybe it's less optimal. But even they might change their tunes back to the concept of separate boxes and normal panels if they dislike all the ads and data tracking.

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0: https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays/me501
By "IP spoofing" I mean getting around range IP bans. It's not for privacy reasons.
Seat belt use* is the brown M&M of the US fire service community. If you don't see regular seat belt use in your local fire department, you should find out why. It typically means the company officers just aren't doing their job. If your department -

A. Wears seat belts; B. Chocks the wheels religiously; C. Checks if the door is locked before breach; D. Positions apparatus for, but does not initiate water supply properly at all credible alarms; they're going after some really pernicious problems, typically driven by sheer laziness, in the fire service.

*FFs, yes ice rescue, I know, edge case.
>What kind of firmware updates do you need to do on it, when its only purpose is to act as a screen?

My display had an issue where the video modes necessary for the XBOX Series X were not working properly. The display would drop-out in some 4K modes. It's stable now, so I haven't checked/updated anything in about a year.
I guess the specifics are the letters N, D and A and what they stand for. And the fact that there's absolutely nothing in it for them.

Would you even consider signing an NDA if I sent you one? I surely hope not.
> What kind of firmware updates do you need to do on it, when its only purpose is to act as a screen?

On some screens, signal processing has been significantly improved in later firmware versions. New features are also not uncommon, such as VRR and HFR being added after release[1]. This is particularity nice for modern consoles.

[1] https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...
So, yes the alternative is not to use a device used by 95% homes in the US.

What next the old Slashdot meme - “I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years. Do people still watch TV?”
Digital Signage Displays are basically fancy monitors available as large as you want. But they'll cost you a pretty penny, being designed for 24/7 operation and without the ad-subsidy of smart TVs. Maybe hunt for a used one. Or conference room monitors, as suggested elsewhere in the thread.
The base rate of building problems is that the customer screwed up, and the base rate of Google support problems is that Google is negligent. I'm not sure how to compare these.
I can comment on that. But I get the sentiment. For my setup there always seems to be some small thing that is wrong all the time. Fix - fine for a few months... borked. When you just want to watch something. I currently have to go thru the system and figure out why it is not acting like an appliance. Start up is constantly an issue with my setup. So when anyone in the house wants to watch something they are coming to find me. Current suspect is the hdmi vs the tv I have is not setting up the connection correctly. For the amount of media I own it is not feasible to go back to the old system though so I stay. Also adverts suck. But I totally understand the sentiment.
Ask HN: Are you part of the Great Resignation, if so what's your story?
Did the pandemic influence you to be part of the "great resignation", i.e did it motivate you to take an early retirement, work less (go part-time) or even have a major career change (become a farmer, go to med school...).

This phenomena remains the most puzzling macro trend and doesn't seem to be a US-specific one (it is also very visible in UK and European data[1]) nor does it seem transitory so far, so it would be interesting to get a tech sector snapshot of what is driving it.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/30/economy/great-resignation-uk-australia-europe/index.html
Most of the firmware upgrades are to keep the “smart” parts working, but sometimes they fix actual bugs.
The proposed solution breaks down when you're trying to register with an alias that you can't send from. For example, I share an alias with my wife that we use for shared logins, shared notifications, etc. The burden of helping her be able to send from that address is sufficiently high that I would likely pass on any service that transitioned to this mode of operation.
Parity can just mean equal. And the Euro’s creators clearly targeted a value similar to the dollar.
One colleague back in the day quit and joined his family movie-rental business. Was back at work in a couple months - couldn't take retail.

Yet another quit as VP of a successful company, started a Falafel restaurant. Still at it, still going strong.

It's all about the individual. Nobody is going to be able to guess what will work.
Should be able to run CANbus also, here we go, someone did it:

https://github.com/kentindell/canhack
Or partnerships between the TV company and the ISPs, to put additional wireless networks on their consumer routers that are accessible to the TVs.
This is a fundamentally unserious point unless you want to add more qualifiers.

I’m pointing to this as evidence https://cloud.google.com/customers

I feel like a lot of the problems that people run into with GCP are avoided with two main components.

Number one you should look seriously at the “enterprise” designation for different products and services if you are looking for long term stability and guarantees about the future (details: https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/resources/enterprise-apis) and secondly you need to buy actual customer support as an add on if you want to avoid the “I had to hit the front page of HN to actually speak to someone” scenario https://cloud.google.com/support
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-75-4k-interactive-touch...

Not cheap though.
It would be pretty easy to check and validate if that's true.
Not to make excuses for Google, but is this an entirely accurate portrayal?

Like, I've been working on a web project that doesn't contain any analytics, but which stores and retrieves JSON data in Google Firebase. I imagine if I opened my website with this tool, I would hear lots of noise.

But, I just can't imagine how Google could do anything useful (to them) with my random JSON blobs.
How about one that can do 5G? Samsung and Huawei are doing 5G TV,

https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-5g-8k-tv-promises-to...

https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-is-developing-a-5g-8k-...
A common explanation I get from people with poor digital hygiene is that they do not see how it is affecting them. Making the imperceptible perceptible is a great concept for more innovations.

I have sent the kids in my house logs for their devices from the DNS blocker I have running on our network, but it was too much for them to digest. Perhaps I should work on a visualization tool of all the data that shows impacts of their data leakage and puts it in a video format they can consume. It sounds like a lot of work to build.
There's only a handful of licenses given out to lotteries over here, and they have to donate a big percentage of their revenue to charity. Which is probably fine by them, I'm sure there's a lot of shady business and tax write-offs happening there.

But either way, things are more regulated over here (Netherlands).

They decriminalized online gambling recently though; the big companies swooped in and started massive ad campaigns, which they're now trying to get in check.

Even if these things are all above board, gambling, lotteries and sweepstakes are massive money makers.
We have a corrupt government and media that itch each others back. There's still a complete lack of urgency.

A potential new prime minister trying to defend profits of energy companies recently on TV just shows you the Modus operandi of the political class.

It might push people to riots in the streets.
What? I’m in the middle here but your suggestion is not practical. Your professional interests should be largely orthogonalizable from your personality traits like degree of extroversion. I’m a scientist. I like people. I don’t want to have to be a bartender because I like working with other people.
Or just get any smart tv and add a android tv dongle . They don't cost much
I don't think you understand the mindset. It's not about mimicking something good, it's about having something good. Your 2$ Casio watch is more accurate than a Rolex, yet people still go for the Rolex

EVs bring performance in the same way Audible brings performance to "reading", ie it's a complete different experience, and some people prefer the old way.

No performance oriented person look at Tesla specs and drool, sure you smoke a fefe in a straight line, add a few turns and quick decel/accel and it's a whole other story. The m3 battery alone weight 1/3rd of a whole Ferrari
Pandemic, War and Famine Probably until 2019 in some places on earth, the author was absolute right. Let's wait until the Fall/Winter to see.
Smart TVs are also regularly cheaper than equivalent "dumb TVs".

Only if you don't value quality.

A did a price comparison about a year ago, using Best Buy and B&H. The plain display panels from B&H were either the same, or only marginally more expensive than the equivalent "smart" televisions from Best Buy.

People on HN too often parrot that Vizeo CEO's claim that his TVs are only cheap because of all the spying they do. While true, it only holds up in you're interested in watching a Vizeo-quality TV.
This is a non-argument - just because most people do it doesn't mean you have to do it, too.

Edit: The slippery slope: 95% of people are straight.
I suppose "Euro falls to historic low against dollar" might have sufficed as a headline, but highlighting the relative values and the 1:1 threshold that was crossed (no matter how abstract it technically is) could help more readers connect with the story a bit more
Except that for checks, it's not the numerical part written in the little box that matters, it's the full written amount e.g. 'Five Thousand Three Hundred Fourty-Seven and 33/100' for 5,347.33.

Similar rationale, though, because it's easier to modify a number (say, change a 7 to a 9) than to change a full word.
Imagine not getting worker collective organizing.
Samsung and Huawei are doing 5G,

https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-5g-8k-tv-promises-to...

https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-is-developing-a-5g-8k-...
> dependencies are a necessary evil, but still an evil

I'm curious about this assertation. I've also heard that "do one thing and do it well" is a desirable goal and one should offload tasks to other pieces that specialize in that task (e.g. don't write your own crypto, use existing libraries), is there something that makes a programming language different?
On firefox nightly for Android, you can create an addon collection that will allow you to add uMatrix to the available addons. I've been using firefox nightly on Android for years without any noticeable downsides.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-collections-add...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/collections/1731011...
John's graph was enough to convey the point, but I agree this one is an improvement. I don't know that I've seen this exact plot style before, but it's exactly what came to mind for me after reading the intro of this article. It's the "stem plot" version of a side-by-side bar chart.
Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks
Already,

https://www.techradar.com/news/samsungs-5g-8k-tv-promises-to...

https://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-is-developing-a-5g-8k-...
Nah. You get to be a $1T company by making excellent products that have no competition and adding excellent support on top of that. I recommend you to try it. I also used to hate on Apple, but now I think I used to be silly or even dumb; it was a huge lesson in trying what I hate first for a few weeks before I go on the internet spouting uninformed speculation.

The iPad I gave my grandmother is the best specced, fastest (other tablets with similar specs are not even nearly that smooth) and cheapest thing at the same time I could get her. She can use it perfectly well (but had big problems with inconsistencies on Android). I don't have to worry about her doing something to it (whereas the Android phone, which I locked down, still had to have factory resets every year or so - and support non-existent, updates gone).

The MacBook Air M1 I got for myself is running laps performance-wise around my other computer with i9 - and it doesn't even need a fan, and I can work 2 full days (16 hours) on a single charge - doing Node.js and React Native development so nothing lightweight. The display has no competition, period - and that alone would be a reason to prefer Apple. The keyboard is the best from modern laptops too (yeah they used to have problems there, not anymore), and the sound is godlike. This computer also has much better price-performance ratio than any other option on the market, and there's not a single comparable product for that price ($1200).

The iPhone is the same story, don't want to repeat myself.
Is it just me or does anyone else think Carmack is all hype engine now?

Don't get me wrong, I've read master of doom/doom engine books like we all have, but first Oculus/Facebook and now this?

Maybe I'll care once they produce something amazing, but until then I'll still marvel at the tricks in Doom/Quake code.