skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For non-technical users, having one UI with all their streaming apps built-in is honestly a useful feature. The problem is all the other spying, hijacking, slowdowns, and other bullshit. But it's often a desirable feature for many users at its core.

For a technical user: the smarts often serve no point, we already have a streaming solution. Unfortunately, higher end TVs with OLED panels and the such come with "smarts" built-in. So the best you can do is ignore it and hope the firmware updates (that you install over USB because you don't trust it with a wifi connection) don't cause a ton of UI slowdown over time or otherwise cripple the TV. But if we could buy a dumb TV with the same features, we would.
Most people I know don’t have a PC or don’t have a PC they can easily connect to a TV as it is in another room and not easily moved.

For those that do, such as those with a laptop, they don’t want the inconvenience of connecting it to the TV to open up Netflix to watch The Crown.
And the collision of the RMS Olympic (the first of the three in that family) with the HMS Hawke. As did the coal stoker Arthur Priest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Priest
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What to do in case of nuclear disaster? What type of nuclear disaster?
In case of full scale nuclear war?
Nothing we will just die, if you do not have long term survival bunker that is it. The End.

In all calculations of global clash everyone forget one thing, it is not nuclear weapons but that there is 450 nuclear reactors with thousands kilograms of nuclear rods far more worse than nuclear weapons combined, so just imagine 450 untended Chernobyl at the same time.
I guess their WebOS app doesn’t have root detection.
It prevents the more amateurish cheats, which by itself reduces cheating in the community by a lot. Obviously in these kind of games, active policing is the only way to find the most sophisticated cheaters. But the anti-cheat does help.
I don’t see the point because it’s dangerous connecting a TV to the internet. Using open firmware like this also adds the chance that you can brick your TV

I don’t understand why people don’t stream using a separate box. There are plenty of options which perform much better than the under resourced built-in streamers inside cheap televisions
Generally speaking "smart" means "quickly becoming obsolete". Cars a few years old now have built in unwanted/unusable satnavs.
> cough Proton cough

I'd take Proton any day over a neutered ad blocker
Unfortunately, letting the assholes win breeds a world full of assholes. I don't want to die and I'm not going to assert my right of way and risk my life, but, the laws need to be enforced else we get lawlessness and a world of whoever is most aggressive wins.
Reminder that Onyx/Boox are well-known GPL IP thieves who won't publish source for the Linux or Android code they took to use on their devices.

Amazon could score an easy win and force a lot of Boox owners into their direction by getting an import ban on Onyx devices.
If only there existed some tool that understood language deeper than substrings!

(That second link describing how AI can't understand language well enough to solve the problem predates GPT-3 by 2 years)
There's not going to be a nuclear war. I'm not scared in the slightest. The media seize on Putin's 'threats' as "OMG NUCLEAR WAR IMMINENT!!!!1!" but in reality a nuclear threat is a routine thing done by a nuclear armed country facing off against a more powerful nuclear armed country. It will never actually come to blows. In fact, it was the west that was making the nuclear threats towards the USSR, starting after WW2 when western forces were outnumbered 3:1 in Europe, and at least through the 70s with Nixon's madman theory.

So to all those who are actually worried about a nuclear war due to the Ukraine war, I say - sleep tight. It's just the media trying to scare you to get clicks.
1. Nuclear power plants dont even pay for 1% of their own insurance and you also believe they also shouldnt have to pay for decommissioning cleanup?

2. And yet nobody's ever done it, probably coz its not feasible https://www.wsj.com/articles/utilities-want-to-convert-coal-...
> I was going to cry foul since 5.18 and 5.19 aren't considered "stable" by most maintainers

Distro maintainers certainly, unless you're Gentoo, Arch, or one of the other mostly-bleeding-edge rolling release distros. The "stable" kernel is whatever the current release is and "longterm" kernels are typically the last major kernel version released in a given year.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Most distributions pick whatever the latest longterm kernel is when they cut releases. Sometimes they don't and things get strange, such as when Canonical chose kernel 4.15 for Ubuntu 18.04, requiring them to maintain an unsupported kernel themselves. IIRC that was because a bunch of AMD CPU and GPU support was added in 4.15.
It might be an excerpt from the book, "Plaster & Drywall Assemblies Manual" by Mark Fowler, Bryan Stanley, and Darin Coats, ISBN: 978-0-692-29800-8, https://www.tsib.org/content.asp?contentid=161 & https://www.wconline.com/products/547-plaster-and-drywall-as...'

1931: CLPCA publishes the "Historical Digest of Plastering".
1976: The Plaster and Drywall Systems Manual is published and used as a text book in many architectural schools.
2014: The fifth edition of the Plaster & Drywall Assemblies Manual is published.
One of the reasons might be that there are no non-smart TVs with the same kind of features available. For instance, I am unsure whether there are non-smart large OLED TVs.

Also, price of a TV with "smart" features typically does not differ much from a price of a similar TV with only non-smart features. So, people buy them because they are getting something extra at little additional cost.

Of course one can create a DIY smart setup with any TV. But given that many people already have a TV with a capable hardware, it is in my opinion only natural that they want to turn it into a proper smart TV simply by changing its software, rather than by buying a smart PC, adding cables, etc.
Lobotomizing my TV is an apt description for what I did to my old TCL. I just removed the entire wireless module.
Extension on the Chrome Store of CouponBirds' extention - Smart Coupon Finder
Note though that those earliest examples are distinct stories or journals or religious texts rather an extensive literature (as in fiction, art, etc).
Ordered the hardcover immediately, looking forward to spending a weekend chunking through it
Not 100% silent, but lots of new projectors are based on LED/laser lamps, which produce a lot less waste heat.

Plus there's now ultra-short-throw projectors that sit in the front of the room, rather than above / behind you.

Ultra-short-throw also has the advantage that you can use from-below lenticular screens. This means that ambient room light affects them a lot less, since they refelect light mostly coming from only where the projector is.

Sadly, "smart TV" has infected projectors as well. But maybe not as bad as normal TVs. Most projectors still have dumb inputs that work fine.
This appears a choice by Europe or at least some cities.

Pictures of how bike unfriendly it was in the 70s

https://inkspire.org/post/amsterdam-was-a-car-loving-city-in...
“AI ethicists” so far smack of people who want to make AI express all their personal biases and prejudices. Listening to them for about 10 minutes makes me desperately hope for an open future like that created by stable diffusion out of the sheer terror they might have their hand on the rudder.

I honestly think most of them are window dressing and aren’t allowed to have real influence though. They’re there for the PR, not to actually change things, but they honestly just make me really scared or big tech controlling AI.
This webpage reminds of those cars you see driving around covered with signs or writings.
I don’t understand, what is the point of doing this? Eliminating ads? Expanding functionality? It’s not clear from the description what is to be gained from jail breaking your LG tv. I’m perfectly satisfied with it now.
Ok then. Can we funnel all the marketing, spin and hype towards existing public transport?
That’s an idealistic view. The pragmatic one is to turn the page back a few years to Cambridge Analytica. There is a good quote from Zuck testifying to Congress in this article https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/11/mark-zuck...

> “When we heard back from Cambridge Analytica that they had told us that they weren’t using the data and deleted it, we considered it a closed case. In retrospect, that was clearly a mistake. We shouldn’t have taken their word for it. We’ve updated our policy to make sure we don’t make that mistake again.”

If there is a third-party server in the middle of you and the service, you kind of have to assume that they are doing something with the data.

It is made worse because some developers aren’t doing questionable things. Others are doing questionable things. But you have no way of discerning between the two groups.

So, it has now become against the TOS to have a third-party make requests on your behalf.

Should we believe in the internet’s ability to be unequivocally good, or should we look at history and realize data protection is a serious problem?
Well, my TV is older, but I don’t use an external speaker.

But because of laziness I suppose, but also because I don’t want a sub-woofer type sound. Also don’t want a second remote.

I am sure those things can avoided, so I am open to advice on what to get.
Will there be a time when media is "done"?

If I say "If tomorrow everybody stopped producing new books, series, music or movies, I could just start catching up to what's already been produced and it'll last me a lifetime", it may be not true today (is it?). But, will it be true at some point? When? In centuries? Months?
When I bought my house in a major US metro, any attempt to low-ball the seller simply meant your offer would go immediately in the trash in favor of one of the dozens of asking-plus bids, and continued attempts to do it was a surefire way to extend the unpleasantness of house hunting. And house prices in my city are up 20% since 2020, so I don't think the situation has become more amenable to low-ballers.

And that's all beside the point, because the information asymmetries in real estate markets are totally different from labor markets. This law reduces the information asymmetry to actually make labor markets more like real estate markets, in which all historical prices are public information and (in civilized jurisdictions, at least) all known relevant factors that might affect price are legally required to be disclosed.
The pressure level was still 150 bar, which is insanely high for such a long and wide tube. So I would not rule it out.

"Under pressure" could just be 5 bar to keep it at a sane level.
I have a hard enough time using/publishing my own photographs. I am impressed by people who add other peoples work into their workflow. And even more so when it is analog photographs that require a substantial amount of work before publishing.

But great effort!
Yeah, order of magnitude error. Sorry about that.

The question is still reasonable, though, and I would guess the answer is that it's that a ton of infrastructure needs to be replaced and rural areas have always had unsustainable infrastructure costs. Also demand for construction labor is high after wildfires so costs are elevated.
>You realize that you just defined a "free market" to be a market that is free of regulation, but requires regulation to maintain its state as a free market?

Did you even read the comment? The only constraint he put on "government regulation" is that price controls and subsidies aren't allowed. That is a tiny subset of government regulation, and not equivalent to all possible government regulation.

Honestly, how long will it take people to realize that money and land are the two most distorting monopolies in the capitalist market that enforces the formation of monopolies in all other industries as only monopoly returns in the non monopoly sectors are able to get the "root" monopolists off your back?
Companies often die not because of a lack of money but rather because of too much money and the resulting profitability expectations by the financial sector that cannot be met.

The solution to those problems is very easy. You implement a land value tax and a resource based tax to allocate both land and resources properly. Once you have that you can introduce negative interest rates based on at least a dozen theories you can pick your favourite one. Allowing negative interest rates defuses artificial profitability expectations and allows people and governments to pay off their debt.

The reason why a negative interest rate works is because money is a public institution and liquidity is a degree to how well accepted this public institution is. This means the owner of the money can sell this public service just like the owner of land can sell the convenient public services near his property as a perk. So the lender will always want to get paid interest for the public services the liquidity he holds onto provides and this then forces a profitability expectation on the borrower even of it is completely unreasonable during a recession for example.

In both cases the government is providing public services without asking for compensation, no wonder governments keep running out of money and fail to collect enough taxes, they massively subsidize the holders of land and money by not taxing them in proportion to how much they benefit from the government. These indirect subsidies can be sold for a profit which then effectively turns them into direct subsidies. Getting rid of subsidies is a type of regulation that is compatible with free markets. Meanwhile capitalism is inherently incompatible with free markets as it thrives on monopoly rents.
My favorite feature, is that the power switch actually separates the battery from the electronics. The thing is OFF!
https://httpbin.org/ is really great. Actually you can do

curl https://httpbin.org/ip

to get your IP address, so no need to remember an additional domain. Although I think everyone knows https://icanhazip.com
That entirely depends on the country.
I see that the reason for climate change denial is two-fold; on one hand, climate change wrecking chaos is mainly restricted to projections, and on the other, climate change activists as a group express many qualities which make people not want to give weight to their claims, mainly naivete and arrogance. Since we're not seeing too significant effects of climate change yet, people would need to research the subject in order to get an accurate image of possible future scenarios. But how they see climate change activist group expressing themselves puts them off the subject. Psychologically the best option in this cases is denialism of some amplitude.

I'm not trying to crucify any group here by the way. This is just how I see the issue.
This.

> unauthorized api requests

The word "unauthorized" has two meanings here:

One is authorized by the user, another is authorized by the vendor.
I know that, but thats for a comparably small number of large aircraft landing at a single designated location. It wouldn't scale at all to a city-wide air taxi service.
Leunig – Recent Cartoons
Kate Beaton’s “Hark, a Vagrant!” is some seriously fun intellectualism and the historical references will only date you if you’re 300 years old. Such a fun book if you have some sense history.
Critical mass is "if enough people would just"

Other stuff, like communism, really requires "if everybody would just". An arbitrarily small number of defectors will make the system tip towards collapse.
Not the one you're responding to, but I have a similar experience with the RSS feeds that I follow. I have a public list of feeds I follow at https://www.heyhomepage.com/?module=timeline&view=sharedlist It's not big yet - and probably some sites that you know from here - but I've a backlog of hundreds of feeds that I want to share. I have to categorize this list of feeds first before I make all of them public.
Yes! This is exactly why I continue to use Arduino for both personal and "work" (various non-industrial one-off widgets), despite having been literally laughed out of the room by embedded software and hardware engineers for even suggesting it.

Like for one project as a student, we had to make a dozen or so units of a custom data logging thingy. The plan was to use STM boards, but I suggested using Arduino software/libs because all the hardware was supported and we didn't really need anything STM-specific. Eyes were rolled, something to the extent of "Arduino is for amateurs and children" was said, so I volunteered to work on the server side instead and let them have their fun with STM32 HAL. They ended up having to interface with most things manually because libs just don't exist or aren't publicly available. Half a year later, they needed to set up a more of these units, but it was in the middle of the supply chain issues and basically no affordable STM boards were in stock. Meanwhile, the local electronics store had more than a hundred Arduinos in the warehouse. My screenshot and winking emoji were not appreciated in the team chat. The new generation now uses various Arduino (Atmel) and ESP boards with software now fully written on top of the Arduino stack with only one or two board-specific sections in the code.
Orion supports Firefox and Chrome browser extensions natively. Whether you prefer getting them from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-Ons, your extensions are just a click away.

from their website
pro.ip-api.com is not capturing data sent by the extension, they already have this data. see ip-api.com
I'll play it next time I see them :)

Now I'm wondering which is the best strategy you can follow if the other players follow an unknown non-optimal strategy (like selecting 1,2 or 3 with p=1/3). Maybe it's a good scenario to try some reinforcement learning
Cost of German long-distance train journeys to rise by up to 7%
Any general comments on how to write forward-compatible software for a hack programmer?
I can second Belgium, although I’m a bit biased since I’m Belgian-American.

I used to live in Los Angeles, so talk about a car dependent extreme, and now settled down more permanently in Belgium. I’m car free for about a year and a half now and it’s extremely doable between my bicycle, the train and car sharing.

Every now and then I contemplate moving back to the US but then I run into the same predicament as you, which less-than-completely car dependent place to move to.
> Don't like it, don't use it

I don't like it and I don't use it, but unfortunately it's more complicated than that because of the network effect.
>Of course they should be able to block 3d party clients. Just because it's technically possible to hijack an API, doesn't mean it's legal or ethical. If you don't want to be tracked, don't use Instagram.

This is the bit that's confusing to me.

If I want to access my FB/IG/whatever content, and present my credentials to the server along with a valid request for my data, why should Meta care how I do so?

I could be using nc[0] piped through openssl, rather than a web browser (do you believe Meta can mandate which browser you use and/or what add-ons/extensions it runs?). Is that "hijacking" the API?

If the answer to that question is "no," then shouldn't I be able to write my own client, to access my data, too? If you think I should, then how are either of those (nc, write my own client) really different from using software written by someone that's not me or Meta, as long as I (providing authentication/authorization for my own access) use it to access my own data?

[0] https://www.unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/nc/
LOL, as a Russian I sometimes read US "experts on Russia" for lulz. They either live in a dream world where brown bears walk on streets of Moscow drinking vodka and playing balalaikas, or they just translate this nonsense to the public. Their ignorance is outstanding. Like "Russians will start a revolution because McDonalds and Coca-Cola left Russia market". Actually almost nobody regrets it, and most people are happy that it happened. And so on.

Just about every twit from McFaul about Russia is so deranged, that I'm not even surprised anymore, I read him as a good comedy.
> At least in the 1990s SF had plenty of prominent targets, from what I read in books at the time. One of them (I don't remember where I read this) was the Chevron oil refinery & storage facility just off the Richmond bridge. Driving past all those oil tanks you can kind of see why. Hopefully it was just some fictive thinking though...

Prior to the 1980s or so targeting strategies were nominally divided into some mix of counterforce (i.e. targeting military installations) and countervalue (i.e. targeting civilians). The exact mix would depend on the parties involved and what sort of attacking they were either perpetrating or defending against. However, at some point infrastructure targets became a sort of third option for target lists, which chiefly means oil refineries.

Certain parts of the East Bay were effectively giant bull's eyes because of the concentration of air, naval, and army bases, as well as oil refineries. Cutbacks since the 90s have pared away much of the military in the area, and oil refineries are usually secondary targets.. the sort of thing you don't want to hit if you think you can win without it because you'd rather it still be around so you can make use of it yourself, but if not, waste it.
No motive?

Let's see who benefits from this sabotage.

1. Russia doesn't benefit as it disabled their property and removed an important negotiating tool from their portfolio.

2. Germany doesn't benefit for obvious reasons. Now even if they wanted to, they can't try to get gas from Russia.

3. The US on the other hand benefits both by wrecking Germany's industry and opening up a market for their LNG.

4. Ukraine gets to demand more freebies and weapons from NATO. Benefit.

5. NATO gets to dump their own inventory on Ukraine. Benefit.

6. The US weapons manufacturers get new orders. Lots of benefits.

Take a step back and apply some common sense.
Smart TV stories really show the bubble that many here are in.

“Why would anyone use a Smart TV?! Just build a home theatre PC to connect to your old TV via a 60ft HDMI cable and use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I’ve been doing this since 2005”

As if any normal person wants that kind of setup. Not to mention the difficulties with the above for higher end content such as 4K Dolby Vision playback.

People want a basic interface that doesn’t require downloading files beforehand. Click a few buttons on the remote and you have high quality streaming video without the fuss.

What is hard to understand about why people like smart TVs? It’s just convenience.
It says right there, it's purpose is to jailbreak your TV. Why do they have to spoonfeed users ideas for what to do after?
Padric O'Plaque might be.
Fair enough, you had specified a freestanding seed so we were talking about slightly different things. You can of course go to extreme lengths to bootstrap a secure machine including manual input. Well actually that might be quite difficult in practice seeing as modern computers don't exactly accept punch cards. Presumably you had to prepare the digital media that provides the payload somehow. But regardless.

The much more common scenario would be bootstrapping something like Guix from within a running OS from a much smaller set of initial binaries than you otherwise might. And that host OS could in theory have been compromised. But I think that attack is a significantly higher bar than a compiler binary that compromises itself.
You can also watch pretty much anything on a "rooted" computer (i.e. one where the user has admin access). I'm not entirely sure why phones are the one device where that's somehow considered a big deal.
Why do you assume that nukes are off the table? If they are, sure, the US could bomb the shit outa Russia.

Otherwise, it is MAD.