skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of Satoshi Nakamoto. He seems to have gotten away with being anonymous. But that was 10 years ago, and he did everything an individual reasonably could in terms of opsec. Even then, he’s still been narrowed down to a pretty short list of known individuals.

These days, someone who was a normal young person using the internet and social media in the 2010s has very little hope if an online mob decides to unmask them, let alone professional investigators.
You can always ask / demand more than what a salary listing shows. I've done that for my last two jobs.
If you have no played it, try this game with some friends. It's surprisingly fun.

> To simplify the problem, let’s start with the simple scenario where you are competing against two other persons.

> P(wining)~=0.296

Where does the other 11.2% go? Is the probability of a triple tie? Perhaps you can add it to the article.
Agreed. I was doing some unrelated research yesterday and stumbled upon the fact that apparently (in Australia) 41% of companies see an increase in IT staff after adopting cloud services. [1]

I thought this was pretty weird since the original value proposition (AFAIR) was to reduce costs/head count. But everywhere I’ve worked that used AWS, had specialists employed to manage AWS. And I think the value proposition is more that it’s easier to find people who know AWS - because there are training providers and certifications - than people who know how to do everything themselves.

Once you get to a certain size I think you can attract a team who can build out rather than buy in, and in so doing reduce costs.

[1] https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/economics/articles/eco...
/proc is cute for manual tasks but utterly broke as an API due to inherent races and issues passing context around.
> ...teach people how to safely and effectively pirate things

> ...making piracy easy and appealing is essential

This sounds a little too naive to me. Every platform that has made significant progress towards these goals has run into massive legal opposition. And then it becomes an ever changing, moving target cat and mouse game between opposing sides. Not to mention the dangers of malware, etc lurking within sought after content - how can you guarantee safety?

I agree that copyright itself needs reform, but looking back over the last ~25 years and how big corporations have become more advanced at fighting online piracy, I don't see piracy as the central mechanism to create the big cultural shift you speak of.
Unlike other brands, my LG allowed me to decline all the crap ware ToS so it's pretty much just a normal non smart TV. It does give a text add for new apps at the bottom usually when a new firmware update comes out.

Not a bad deal imo. Thanks LG.
I've seen Russian media and Tucker Carlson try to make the claim that the US did this but no reputable outlet.
See if your cable modem has a pass-through mode. This disables the NAT, DHCP, etc and passes the IP address of the cable side of the modem through to one of the ethernet jacks. Then you plug your own router in to that and do your own NAT, DHCP, firewall, etc. I know Arris used to have this, haven't checked recently.

My current ISP has the cable modem completely locked down. No control over DHCP, no punching service ports through the NAT for home servers. Also they've got me double NATed.
In a very crude way, sales is about landing new deals or expanding. Customer success is about securing renewals for existing customer and increase adoption, prevent churn. It is a post-sales role.
Why did the author dismiss the LG C1 as having the same problem?

I don’t remember ads on my CX (outside the App Store maybe).

I still use an Apple TV because I like the interface way better. But it has been a great TV.
Having the information necessarily comes before having the understanding. Books relay information, not understanding.

Reminds me of the saying, “I can tell it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.”
for smart tv's in general... can we make a public OSOS, to replace shit like this... just make it a Linux box tied to a some ubiquitous AUR equivalent... or are the unique hardware features too varied to overcome?
To be fair you'd probably end up with a tool like curl just for setting all the options and headers, but it would just be a wrapper around sending the request to the url file. Just like there are tools for reading and parsing files in /proc.
Why does Microsoft get to be evaluated in 1994? How many people are working on their OS right now?
Israel, Norway and Sweden central banks partner with BIS to explore CBDC payment
Thanks for making the product! It's been really exciting to watch your growth. 100% agree with the decision you made given the objective for the software, and I really hope it pushes more people towards open standards. Best of luck ya'll and congrats on the funding round!
I actually deleted the line I had written about Narbacular Drop. You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, of course, but Prey was stuck in a development hell for what, 10 years? It had portals in the 90s!
I feel like the complexity is being oversold a bit here, I agree Arduino is very beginner friendly, but PlatformIO is very much a "Click and Play" development experience

For an absolute beginner PlatformIO is off the beaten path so I'd say skip it to start, but if you have any familiarity with traditional IDEs, PlatformIO is probably 90% as beginner friendly while being more of a traditional development environment.

2.0 being based on Monaco will help bridge the gap, but it's clear that they're still going for a very pared down experience in the Arduino IDE. Other comments comparing it to Notepad are about right... it's very easy to get into Notepad but can be limiting once you get past the initial hump
Dumb question - How does one go about (cost effectively) getting just a monitor that has:

* Same size/resolution range as the comparable TV

* Same price range as the comparable TV

* X display ports (combination of hdmi, usb, etc)

* Wifi (and bluetooth too?)

* Audio + ports

* Fine infra-red too for remotes

* Other absoulute hardware essentials i might have missed

Absolutely no inbuilt players or software or bloatware or adware or any of that crap! May be an app (inbuilt or for the phone) to configure presets perhaps.
There is global board there, though not as active. People post there in english. You can read more from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womad_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalia
Have anyone looked into the service menus of their TVs to see of there are options there to disable?
Honestly Wasabi's advantage is free egress, but with b2 + cloudflare gives a better billing system without the three month object retention thing and a CDN with no egress limit.
We’ll stop using JITs when it becomes acceptable to make computers 2x slower, or more.
Ok so the reason this painfully predictable reaction every time Cloudflare is on HN is because HNers have such a deep understanding of "what's happening." Got it.
Schmidhuber Schmidhubered LeCun himself :)
https://openreview.net/forum?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf&noteId=GsxarV_Jy...
I am in a search for Wi-Fi 6 router, can you please name the company I should avoid?
School IT guy here.. DocuSign made multiple pitches to our district and they all fell flat. Really seemed to be cold call marketing a product … that is not as valuable as they try an protray.

We have been digitally signing document and digitally registering students .. for over a decade … Docusign did not make the process any easier. Pass.
Temporal Logic of Actions, for other curious readers.
i think what you mean here is, we need a better IDE for the fpga world.

building a simple hardware dev board is a straightforward exercise.

building an IDE that lets a novice do anything useful on an fpga, outside of a very basic state machine, is an entirely different problem in both scope and structure.

The vast majority of HDL blocks you'd need to make such a thing more useful than a $4 microcontroller are closed source, nontrivial to build, and require careful thought in terms of integrating them into a workable system, not to mention very specific and application dependent PHYs: Things like HDMI, ethernet, USB, etc.

I think what most people would prefer is a fast general purpose CPU with pluggable, low-latency memory mapped peripherals without the hassle of having to know linux systems programming to make it work.
Meanwhile the OP post is so full of ads you’re basically scrolling past a full-screen (on mobile) ad for every paragraph. Then when I came across a chunk of text without ads and thought it was over, an ad got dynamically loaded into the middle of the text pushing what I was reading down off the screen.

Yes in this case I didn’t pay to read the content so they need ads, but the user-hostility of ads everywhere is just insane lately.
If I were in that position I think I'd buy a TV that's lower priced but still quite good ($1.5-$2.5k) and spend the difference on a good streaming box. The value per dollar is much better that way.
Former Firefox developer here.

The reason for omitting tests is because they are essentially the exploits themselves; omission raises the barrier to entry, as somebody has to be skilled enough to craft an exploit based on the source code change.

While security fixes are typically pushed out on all supported branches within a very short window of time, anything that buys time is useful imho.
I have boxes of family photos, negatives, slides and films.

I wonder how to convert the reels and reels of super 8mm stuff - which seems to include sound.
Still waiting for Google Fiber to be an option where I live.

I am located within 5 miles of Google HQ in Mountain View, CA.
absolutely love clojure and all that it's taught me. i even ported many of the core functions to python so i could continue using them.

but not a fan at all of writing html in clojurescript. it's extremely ugly to look at vs raw html/jsx. and became cumbersome really fast for me as my app grew in size... maybe there are better alternatives now, this was around 5 years ago.

using react with libraries like ramda/redux/rxjs in affect achieve the same thing but with 10x more libraries and references online.

the philosophy behind clojure will completely change how you code and visualize problems if you embrace it. honestly can't remember the last time i wrote a for loop...
I am not sure if I consider Trump's behavior breaking the Terms of Services that we _all_ need to follow, but he walked up to that line closer and closer, and got bit. However, 2 others, Senator Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley said way more damning things than Trump, on paper, the same days, on the same topic, and they got no penalty.
Readers may also enjoy Steampipe [1], an open source CLI to live query Stripe [2] and 80+ other services with SQL (e.g. AWS, GitHub, CSV, AirTable, etc). It uses Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers under the hood and supports joins etc across the services. (Disclaimer - I'm a lead on the project.)

1 - https://steampipe.io
2 - https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/stripe
By some metrics, intelligence is self evident. Especially in the context when you mean approximately the same thing between intelligence/conscious.

There is some intangible property I observe when I look at a human and determine they are conscious. There is some intangible property I observe when I look at a dog and determine it is conscious. There is some intangible property I observe when I look at stable diffusion and determine it is conscious.

Some attempts to explain this intangible property have been made. Almost all of the time disagreements in these explanations boil down to semantics. Yes, I consider the ability so solve problems a demonstration of intelligence. Yes, I consider to Stable Diffusion to be solving problems in this way. Also yes, I consider a hard-coded process to be behaving in a similar way.

At the end of the day we seem to define consciousness as something that makes us sufficiently sad when we hurt it.
Sure, but that’s not a very high-end panel. When Samsung and LG make almost all the best panels, it’s tricky to avoid if you aren’t willing to sacrifice picture quality.
Those articles complaining about ads are always unclear to me.

Are they saying that there is ads even when you switch inputs to a 3rd party device or is it just in the built-in media player?
Are the cops generally investigating Wi-Fi theft in your area?
I think the point is that there are much better ways to communicate this.
I see what you are saying regarding artboard view.

But is it necessary? Can't the artboard be visualized in a better way?
If such high-level view is desired, won't rasterized details be sufficient till one zooms in?
This is the exact reason I have never "bought" digital "copies" of anything. A subscription service is one thing, but selling a "digital copy" is basically a scam.
Yeah Nixpacks is super cool! It uses nix and BuildKit to produce images for various different languages, and since it uses BuildKit under the hood, it might be able to use Depot's BuildKit to perform the actual build. I'd love to see what that integration would look like, Depot would provide the compute and persistent caching, and nixpacks would simplify the build process itself.
They want sales involved for any purchase over £2k per annum, and I suspect it's because actually a lot of their revenue comes from the sort of order sizes and software integrations you only achieve from having account managers and support staff asking a lot of questions about their business process and software platforms, and then fielding questions from legal.
How does Figma approach this layering, as I understand you have your in-house built engine to support it, right?
Appreciate the rundown of thought-processes in play when evaluating new tools, but it would've been extra nice if there were a postscript on how the tool in question which inspired this post (Phoenix) stacked up on each point.
as a salesperson, I can confidently say that the change will be on the buyer side that eliminates the need for most salespeople. salespeople are already getting less and less time with prospects. Studies show salespeople only influence about 5% of the buying process. What comes next is automating recommendations for software products based on specific needs, buying criteria, etc.
Really classy how chess.com promises privacy and then (according to vice.com) leaks mails.

The whole Carlsen/Niemann affair is tainted by their involvement. You can't just buy the Play Magnus Group and then protect your new asset (Carlsen) by dragging up dossiers, J. Edgar Hoover style.

I'm saying this as someone who is sympathetic to Carlsen's withdrawals.
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Edit: actually, since you've been repeatedly breaking the site guidelines quite badly (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33007427, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33006693) I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
I made my first foray into web extensions with mv3 on chromium recently. I thought, maybe it's fine since I have nothing to unlearn. Nope. mv3 is terrible and nothing works. Every example of something I want to do is in mv2 and doesn't work at all in mv3. The attempt has killed any desire I have to write a webextension at all.
Finally was able to get the signup process sorted (discovered that I had to use a different email address than the one I had originally requested beta access with); DALL-E's results for the same prompt were more human at least: https://imgur.com/a/OahhDS4 .
As interesting as the article was, bringing up such things as the enduring appeal of Rubik’s cubes and he-man, I was somewhat disappointed with its focus on the corporate aspect and trademarked toys, with barely a mention of stuffed animals, teddy bears, certainly not traditional toys; it does briefly mention dolls. Many of us have or remember a special toy from our childhood, and I can’t help but wonder about people of the deeper past. Toy dolls have apparently existed since time immemorial, but my brief internet search isn’t giving many details. Dolls and pull toys go way back around the world. Otherwise many sources claim the first stuffed animal was produced by Margarete Steiff c. 1880, yet I have some skepticism around that.
Some boring business book:

Successful businesses must have 3 Successful divisions: good product, good sales and good finance/admin.
This has parellels in the music industry. A British band has "made it" only if they have made it in America.
Something like input switching should operate below the OS.
I suspect you're missing the forest for the tree, re labor theory of value.
I've never seen a great projector that doesn't make a ton of white noise form the fan. Do "silent" projectors exist?
$250k is a lot of cash, but doesn't go far in Cali these days.
Primarily because we are getting taxed to the max, 51%, without the tax breaks like babyboomers of y'ore.

Even in Texas, taxes are still pretty extreme considering how we don't get that much more from the Government compared to 20 or even 40 years ago. The average American life looks the same or worse over time, if you adjust for efficiency gains due to technological advances.
Does it actually do anything else, beyond just replicating itself?
you're assuming sales conversations will be necessary in the future. I do not think that will be true for most purchases. It is much easier to match buyers with the right product based on their buying criteria. This is what buyers want anyway.
> But pretending that IP theft doesn't matter is naive

I agree with you in the sense that distributing stuff on the Internet for free may cause lower revenue of the author than there would be without that. But the author and distributor should be aware of the Internet and its tendency to copy what is of interest and execute marketing/selling strategy to make it work anyway. Many do.
very easily googleable - https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9027636?hl=en
I feel like this should probably be assumed to be a methodological problem or a statistical fluke until proven otherwise at this point.
You know all those stories about weird little shops run by suspicious characters but filled with incredible items that end up being cursed. That's every single shop right now. All of our technology is cursed. They will bring you great things, as promised, but always at some hidden price because those items exist to serve a dark master.
I can tell your tiny team doesn't include any designers.
Some years ago I sold my TV because of its annoying UI and ads. I use a large PC monitor instead to watch stuff.
Went back to pirating everything so I dont have to worry about whatever DRM garbage comes next or ads or streaming subscriptions etc.
Zero regret. I waste way less time consuming media in general. I watch more youtube (with ad block and sponsor block ofc) and I go more to the cinema (expensive but I enjoy it way more than a streaming subscription).
I buy merchandise form stuff I like and I go to concerts if possible and that's it.
That’s true but I think that’s not the only reason. Programming an FPGA isn’t as simple as writing and deploying compiled code, you have to write in a hardware specification language.

Actually you can get the same experience with an FPGA if you pay for the FPGA development tools, maybe what you’re asking for is a low cost version of Quartus or similar tools. I would like it if that existed but I fear FPGA makers deliberately want to keep their tooling expensive and hard-to-learn to promote lock-in.
I think it is possible since you could load an sketch that emulates a fpga. Nevertheless it would surely be inconvenient. Probably performance would be sub-par.
I find it strange she chose to bring in the He-Man revamp. It wasn't, to my knowledge, a particularly long lasting success (one of her criteria of successful toys) or having cross cultural appeal despite its update (another factor to the successfulness criteria of a toy). The toy lines doing worse than both of the series - though having a somewhat simultaneous launch of a more mature cartoon and a children's cartoon with accompanying toy lines did muddy the waters. The more mature cartoon's controversy eclipsing it's praises and the entirety of the children's programming and their toy lines was poor planning on the media campaign's part entirely, with Smith doing himself no favors by leaning into it. It was an OK cartoon and didn't need the apparent controversy to stir up ratings. People of a certain age would have taken the nostalgia bait they were promised in the commercials and been happy.
It behaves more like your nephew than a computer in that case.
Interesting that this is often the example given for why computers are bad at certain tasks, and humans are good at others.

It is quite incredible that nothing changed about the architecture in gpt-2 vs gpt-3 (just way more connections), yet it aquired fundamentally new behavior - that if performing arithmetic calculation - despite not having large amounts of training data on the subject.
I think this is the type of phenomenon that shows we are quite poor at estimating what these systems will be capable of when scaling up. So acting as if we're sure it won't lead to improvements in AI is as idiotic as claiming that it will.
There are far too many people on hacker news that follow this fad of being dismissive of AI, because they make the common mistake of equating cynicism with intelligence.
Exactly - I used to be the sysadm on a single machine in a medical laboratory in the 90s. It was a DG Aviion and with the storage unit took up a whole room. Maybe 300 people used it simultaneously.

The idea that I would need to automate the installation of an OS and applications on a fleet of machines was never contemplated because it didn’t make sense. I had one machine and OS upgrades arrived in the post every 6 months or so - on cartridge tape.

It was about need, not competence.
You're right. History has shown the best quality product doesn't always win if there's a "just okay" solution laying around that's more accessible. VHS and Windows both come to mind.
Your commitment to open standards is inspiring and I wish you all the success for the role you play in it.

Is a desktop app in the cards to enable offline use, with https://tauri.app maybe (instead of Electron, for improved performance)?
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Thanks for the dv punishment check, @Barkingcat. You could've done a drive-by downvote, but you at least also left a comment, which I appreciate.

I was about to hop in the car and didn't have time to Google it, and pre-cognitvely figured others might also like to know without needing to also actively search it 100x, collectively.

Looking at my comment history, it's clear I frequently do research things myself and post a thorough comment in an effort to educate as well as inform others about terminology in HN discussions.

Please strive to be generous in your interpretations of others.
My Smart Lock:

* Stores codes on the device itself and still unlocks with no internet connectivity
* Is a physical deadbolt inside that works without power
* If the lock itself runs out of battery power from the OUTSIDE, you can "jump" it with a 9-volt battery
* Allows me to auto-lock after X period of time, or at night
* Allows me to NEVER carry keys, ever. Or ever have to worry about keys.
* Allows me to manage multiple, time-boxed codes for people (housekeeper can't get in at midnight)

It's pretty damn great, honestly. And I stow a 9-volt in a flower box in case of emergency. (You still need to know the code, obviously.)

It's also absolutely pick-proof/bump-proof because it has no key at all. Not even a backup key.

It's the Yale x Nest lock and is really really nice.
My bad, I meant yt-dlp
I don't see how this changes anything. At every non-tech job I've ever had there was no salary negotiation, I either took what was offered or I didn't get the job.