skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Piracy is the only reason things moved in acceptable direction for regular consumer. Were it not MP3, P2P, codecs, matroska and other technologies and formats, we would all still be beholden to some ridiculous locked down standard imposed by the copyright holders and bricked-by-design devices ( ala Zune, which had crazy DRM approach ). Let us not forget that there were ideas of destroying your PC if there is an indication of not allowed content on it.

And even those gains, which were won with overwhelming disobedience, because early internet people were at least technical enough to burn a cd are now being eroded again, but under different guise. Piracy stopped being a thing, because it got easier to get stuff you wanted when you wanted it without trolling the internet. Now with streaming wars coming to a close, content owners think they will get to impose rules not realizing that they are making the same mistake thinking kids will not learn how to bypass whatever restrictions they put in place all over again.

History. Rhymes. All that.
> and a projector has tons of downsides?

I'm not so sure. I've been using a projector as a TV for something like four years straight: no TV at home, only a projector. As a bonus the living room becomes a home cinema. I didn't see much downsides. Zero issue. No ads. Cheaper than a TV for a much wider diagonal and a more "cinema'ish" picture too (I hate it when movies look like cheap sitcoms on modern TVs).

And as many of these are made to show slides and whatnots in corporate settings, ads are a big no-no.

I think more people should seriously consider that option.

EDIT: well I remember one issue... I decided to fix it and it took longer than the time it'd have take to hook a TV. But I did it exactly once, used some fishtape to pull HDMI cables in the system ceiling and family was good to go for years.
Why is the US dollar so strong, and what does it mean?
I have used it in production at small companies (i.e. not Amazon, as some other commenters mention) for things that needed very high reliability. It helped us find a few race conditions that took > 20 steps to reproduce, that I would probably never have found otherwise, and also helped us be very confident in our fixes. I strongly recommend it if you work in scenarios where race conditions can have very bad consequences. OTOH, I also had 2-3 failed efforts to learn the language and tooling before it really stuck, and I still mostly just use the pluscal syntax.
I'm in the market for one of these. Right now all alternatives that have embeddable forms and chat are weirdly expensive. Gitbook would be fantastic, but if you want to include some kind of help desk you're forced to take users off site. Which is a decision I can't quite understand. I mean, users go from the application, to gitlab, to an offsite help desk just to get an answer.
CO’s wage transparency law does fix one problem, which is inefficient allocation of labor resources due to lack of price transparency.

Markets cannot allocate resources most efficiently without market participants having knowledge of price movements.
'Everyone' normally syncs locally, then uploads to the cloud, as 'offsite' storage.
Sorry, you’re right. I was thinking of the TV itself. Yes for a box it’s a little more complicated. Personally I go with Apple TV. Much more polished UI than a Roku and certainly no being bombarded with ads.
In math everything can be derived directly from the underlying axioms given enough time. You don't need historical context. You may want the set of previously proven things to save some time, but you don't need it.
Oh she deserved it. And the HP windows 10 laptop with 64Gb eMMC storage.
Perhaps I'm just missing it, but I haven't sensed any curiosity in your comments about religion. They have seemed to me to come from a pre-existing agenda.
Suppose there are several different major components of a large system that need to know something about an important entity like a user for example. A good way to share that information is to have a user service that answers those questions (in a larger system) or a user library/data provider that does this (in a smaller system). A worse way to do that is to have sql queries that different systems use to get that data.
The actual meaning of "continuum hypothesis can’t be proved one way or the other" is that the axioms we use in set theory are not sufficient to uniquely define what set is. They allow multiple possible interpretations. Under some of those interpretations, an infinity between N and R exists, under other interpretations it does not.

As a simple example, if I make the following set of axioms -- "each natural number is either big or small", "10 is a small number", "20 is a big number", "it cannot be simultaneously true that X is big and X+1 is small", -- then I can prove that 5 is small, or that 30 is big, but I can neither prove nor disprove that 15 is big. Because this set of axioms allow multiple possibilities for what "big" and "small" mean.
Firmware updates may resolve HDMI compatibilities, though, and in my mind it's always worth the risk even if there's a 10% chance of improvement because HDMI reliability is terrible.

When I mounted my TV, I embedded a single HDMI cable, a single cat5e cable, and a single optical cable in the wall. Conduit wasn't an option due to the age and construction of the wall, so changing it would require power tools and drywall mud.

I have a sound bar rather than a receiver because it makes my wife happy. The sound bar works best with ARC. Optical works too, but power and volume isn't synchronized.

I have an NVIDIA shield mounted behind the TV because the TV's software stack got too lethargic, and the TV's built-in decoder has silicon bugs that break video in Netflix, and break surround sound in everything but Netflix.

Surprisingly, everything works reliably about 95% of the time. It's unfortunate that I consider that a win. I just added a 4-1 HDMI splitter with ARC passthrough in order to get a Blu-ray player back in the mix, and it was boring!
Supposedly 350 million dollars worth of gas were lost from nord stream 2. Doesn't seem worth it for a false flag. Plus it eliminates a carrot Russia had for Germany. People need to start thinking critically...
In Europe in many countries left wing feminists fight against prostitution, I'm not sure what you're talking about.
I have an AppleTV connected to my Samsung TV, and almost never use the Samsung remote. The AppleTV remote's on/off button switches everything together (through CEC I believe) so in everyday usage I only ever need a single remote.
But it’s the same clearance process and standard if you’re outsourced or not - they don’t do anything extra if you’re inside a service.
Well dendrite is beta software. Ive been running it for almost two years now and its close to synapse in functionality now while being super lightweight compared to it.

And then there is Conduit which is written in Rust
You're right, you can, it's just one more thing to think about.

I also had in mind Docker Desktop's licensing (paid-only for certain companies), but I now realize I was conflating that with Apple Silicon when it applies to Intel Macs too IIRC.
", does anyone seriously think that using the duplicate app on the Samsung is going to be anywhere nearly as pleasant a UX as the AppleTV?"

I in general think the Apple UX experience is pretty awful across all their products with Apple TV being the worse of all. I have used the Samsung interface and it is bad but I still dislike the Apple TV more.
Great! Proxy extensions live to see another day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32899846
I applaud your dedication and I hope it's true. I've grown to really dislike when my favorite bootstrapped products announce VC funding because 99.99999998% of the time, it ends up badly for customers.
Is this DALL-E or DALL-E 2 ?
https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/heathrow-cra...

"Two airplanes have hit into each other on the runway at Heathrow Airport this evening (Wednesday, September 28). The nature of the incident was not clear at first, but witnesses report that the wings of two planes hit into each other. It is not believed to be a serious incident."
It's a bit cynical; my point is that it's the kind of decision you get to make when you're the sole owner of $100 million and not the kind you get to make when you're a startup company founder working with other investors' money.

OpenAI wouldn't have been able to do what StabilityAI did because OpenAI is incentivized to make return on investment; Mohammad Emad Mostaque is not.
> It had portals before Portal.

Not entirely accurate. Narbacular Drop, the first prototype for Portal (that caught Valve's attention and they hired the devs to recreate the tech in Source engine) was released a year before Prey, in 2005.
This is my favorite joke.

Is the issue big data or small machine?

Memory size of the largest AWS/GCP/... instances is a good indicator for small machine.

It doesn't mean I would go for the large machine. It just means I won't subscribe to "big data" as a reason to do X.

And it forces me to recalibrate this boundary regularly. Looks like double digit TB is currently the memory boundary for renting. I was still on the single digit TB train.
Hope the EU regulates this so I can -- at least -- import a TV from somewhere that doesn't have this shit
I appreciate the reply! I think there's room for an argument like that. The only point I'd push back on is "complete lack of morals" - this is again the type of generic/overheated rhetoric that we're trying to avoid here. The rest seems fine.
When inmates at one of the most notoriously dysfunctional jails spend a few hours in soiled clothes with poop on the floor, it's news. That's every day in Civic Center.

There's a point at which freedom and independence aren't working for someone. Maybe with more resources it could work. But sometimes you need to be in the care of an institution from which you cannot just wander away. This seems obvious... I genuinely do not understand. Do you think there is no such threshold? Or do you think the people hanging out in Civic Center right now aren't over it?

[0] https://gothamist.com/news/rikers-images-shower-cages-poor-c...
Yet most of these aren't needed for small crews... do I care that my DB is not HA when I have 1 RPS? You said yes, but I disagree. Do I need centralized logging if I have a few servers? It's already centralized for free.

It's much easier to setup and forget basic bare metal servers with PG/NGINX and whatnot, than it is to automate using dozens of AWS services.

People pretend that AWS doesn't cost engineers to run it, when it's IMO basically the same human cost, if not bigger as complexity grows. You just don't pay that cost upfront, but you sure do pay it later with interest.

You get stuff like HA but that's not free. You also now have to manage a new boatload of services, scripts, changing APIs, etc.
The smart players will just run a custom headless browser in a glorified nix box with a console-like case and price it at a premium. Profit would be insane.
Precisely. The road StabilityAI took to releasing Stable Diffusion is precluded for most startup companies.
If the only way of encountering those beliefs were to read the source --- the poisoned tree, so to speak --- this argument might have some legitimacy.

In practice it fails on multiple grounds:

First, it's not possible to censor all instances of such philosophical works. The historical record is filled with attempts to do so. These can be somewhat successful, and there are in fact philosophers whose names reach us only by reputation, citation, or other mention, but some philosophy has leaked through.

Secondly, a fresh attempt at doing so would amount to one of the most jarring cases of oppressive authoritarian censorship in all history.

Thirdly, the ideas have come to permeate modern culture. One of the joys of reading philosophy (or literature) is recognising the original source of a specific phrase or concept. I can recall one of my own uni lit courses in which we read Tennyson's "In Memoriam A.H.H.", and came across the stanza:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

<https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h>

A woman in the class exclaimed "Oh, that's where 'Tis better to have loved and lost' comes from?". I'm sure that was a bright day for the lecturer.

Encounters with philosophical history are similar, though often what strikes me is the nuance and context in which even well-known concepts are grounded (say: Pascal's wager, which is far more about expected returns than belief of God's existence).

Fourth, bad ideas seem highly susceptible to arising again and again due to their very simplicity and appeal. This might of course be affected by the third factor, but independent (or at least very distantly related) instances of similar tropes appearing in mythology and sagas suggest that there are ideas which are simply either infinitely regenerative as with Prometheus's liver, or which resist all attempts to kill them, where two new myths grow back for each one that's cut off, as with the hydra's heads.

(Even mythical stories can serve as useful illustrations, itself a factor in their longevity.)

By going back to fallacious reasoning or conclusions and looking at how the ideas emerged, were adopted, and often explicitly encouraged we can obtain, I'd think, a better understanding of similar such processes in our own time. The divorce of ancient beliefs from current tribalism, politics, and passions serves this purpose all the better, though it does help to consider the ancients not as childlike innocents and naifs or ourselves as beyond their own failings when doing so.

And the trove of ancient philosophy is large enough that a specialisation in its history is required such that mere mortals may benefit from its findings, classifications, and synthesis.
Unless, of course, the one remote is garbage, and the hassle of working the system with one remote is greater than with two.
I agree the race/ethnicity and other stipulations not directly related to price transparency are a waste of resources and potentially harmful for political discourse. Just letting the prices be public would have solved the other “problems” without enabling useless dialogue about nebulous classifications.
You underestimate future AI tech (from 10-50 years from today) even more than you think I underestimate sales skills. The tech will completely blow your mind away, and you don't even see it coming ;)
A DVD is typically the price of a movie ticket and it's not uncommon for the DVD to be available while the movie is still in theaters.
What for? Genuine question, what reason does an oven need an internet connection for?

If I bought an oven and it required an internet connection I'd be getting my money back.
Maybe @dang could replace the link with that one, the linked one doesn't seem to be handling the load well.
It's also the big reason why low price LEDs barely last longer than incandescent did. The LED itself is not burning out, but the heat it generated cooks the capacitor used to generate the correct power output, which dies pretty quickly under heat stress.
Cloudflare is a cancer and a lot of people are expressing that same sentiment. I think maybe only non-technical people are satisfied with them because they don't have a deeper understanding of what's happening.
I doubt this.

Even more because the cheaper products have less lucrative users, and are way less likely to include ads than the most expensive ones.
The Instructions of Šuruppak
Among the oldest surviving written literature, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesh_temple_hymn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_of_Shuruppak
Almost every trade has people freaking out and trying to push us all to be generalists.

And I'll continue ignoring pretty much all of them, because division of labor is a lot of why society is so advanced.

I'll grant them the chickens though, mass produced meat is one case where the abstraction hides some horrors that should be exposed.

But simple loss of skill isn't enough to convince me. I don't need to be able to build a CPU from scratch, any more than the CPU designer needs to know all of CSS.

These things are cool and worth exploring, but most any tech one person can understand themselves is probably a historical curiosity more than a practical thing. The rare exceptions like rope and knots are incredibly fascinating.
Hey atleast it isnt us-east-2 this time
Consider getting a digital projector instead. I got a relatively cheap one (Dr J mini projector, 1080p) for $60. It...is not like a TV. Works only in low lighting conditions and has some focus issues, but if you just want a big screen with decent resolution, absolutely worth skipping a TV for this. And NO SMART FEATURES.

I'll be upgrading to a better, eventually 4k projector, but it seems like the ad and spam smart crap hasn't hit projectors yet....YET.
By the random comma after the first word. Must be the "acte gratuit".
I think that's a misrepresentation of the argument though.

MinIO by itself is fantastic software for sure, but running storage appliances is shades of difficult or expensive.

On the one hand you can buy a netapp filer and support plan which is basically as self-healing as the cloud is, netapp will send a human to go replace failed drives before you even know a fault is imminent.

On the other, that's expensive but running your own is complex if you're not setup to do it already.

MinIO is but one part of a data storage puzzle. Though a very important one.
Similarly put, the infinite number of reals is also a bigger infinity than the infinite number of integers (aleph-null).
"The prioritizing of purpose over profession" nicely said. Less PR and bragging and more meaning to your self.
It runs pretty well on my MacBook.
Can anybody explain to me what this is? I've never heard of this.
They mean nightly and beta builds.
You've rejected substantive responses several times too many.
> are sold cheaper than they would be otherwise

They are absolutely not selling $3k TVs at a loss.
If that happens, fork. It's (literally) free.
Pizza with enough tomato sauce counts as one serving of vegetable, yes.
BBC News has a better article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63069004
Apple bans your Apple ID you lose everything. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-clas...
Couldn’t it also be that high rent areas are desirable areas and so everyone heads there, homeless or not?
Every TV ships with a unique secret key. Secret keys that are used to do anything other than connect to an Ads server are disabled.
It's a veritable dystopia with these little snitches.
I have personally seen empire building at companies as early as series B. It definitely happens, especially in the weird VC ecosystem where raising the next round is entirely dependent on revenue growth rather than profitability, which is always just assumed will come eventually with scale.
I'm still heavily exploring these new tools from an artist perspective. I never managed to get a run on Midjourney, but between DALL-E and SD there are quite a few differences. Broadly speaking, DALL-E seems to better get a hang on photographic results and interpreting "what I meant". With stable diffusion it's a lot of fiddling and putting manual emphasis on certain keywords until just getting it right.

Overall, pricing will need to be adjusted over time as well. I set out on an experiment the other day that you can see here: https://twitter.com/Keyframe/status/1574338738808934400

I went about trying to utilize stable diffusion for an imaginary concept project (concept for characters of a remake of TMNT, heh). Process was similar to how I'd do it with another artist more than if I drew it alone. It was back and forth, from rough outlines and then honing into details. Inpainting and img2img helped A TON and I hope I'd get dreambooth running soon as well since that will be a game-changer in the combination of things.

Between exploration phase, detailing, alternatives, and manual painting and over painting, I'd say PER OUTPUT final image I created in the region of a thousand or so interim images. Process overall did take a lot of time but not as much as completely manual and I didn't feel like I had as much control as manual of course, but I did feel ultimately bold enough that I thought I had creative control. With dreambooth I expect it to close the gap.

Overall, I was extremely pleased with the experiment and I'll continue exploring it, even though I'm not doing artwork professionally anymore. And so far no, it's not going to replace artists. It's another tool removing labour, but adds time on direction needed. Ultimately it'll be another brush in the toolbox.
Somewhere down the line a bunch of money has to be made. For themselves and especially to make those VC folks happy (however 'patient' they are, according to their announcement). If they remain 100% open-source, their hosted servers may come with subscription (the Discourse model), and/or they may supply paid for professional templates and plugin packs.

But whatever their plans are in this regards, I think it would be good if they were more clear on their planned strategy.
Check out the CIA reading room, they put all their declassified stuff in one place. If you're paranoid there are mirrors at sites like wikispooks.
I doubt it literally just appends words, it probably gets processed with a GPT prompt like “take this string and make it specifically mention X ethnicity”.
> Everyone around sex workers are considered criminals. Unknowingly rent a property to a sex worker? You're a criminal. Date a sex worker? Suspected to be a criminal. Lend money to a sex worker? Criminal. Use sex work services? Definitely a criminal.

Only in those third world countries where prostitution is still illegal. In the modern world not.
https://prostitution.procon.org/countries-and-their-prostitu...
Probably not serious enough to discuss. Planes clip random things – and each other – while taxiing at airports all the time.
Government employees pay is already public. I assume the only people with a problem with it know they are not worth as much more than others as their compensation suggests.
Official repo is straightforward: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion

Have to admit just started looking into it, mb there are better options
Your parents never asked you to set up a timed recording on that VCR eh
I spent $200 on a 43" Spectre UHD 4K TV a week ago and it literally doesn't have wifi capabilities. It just reads off HDMI. The end.

WalMart sells their stuff at like half MSRP and there isn't network connectivity with which to exfiltrate your data.

I wish every manufacturer worked like this.
I am telling you people don't need 80 pixels of vertical space spent on title and application switcher, and can use those better with actual content.

But if you want to put words on my mouth, go ahead.
That is unrelated, but I've seen similar issues recently when logging into Canvas (you know for school). Maxes out my CPU and if I leave it long enough it crashes the tab due to memory...it's not displaying anything special...
Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets (2004)
Also in the Icelandic state news: https://www.ruv.is/frett/2022/09/28/vel-icelandair-lenti-i-a...
I've been very happy with Sony smart TVs. They are Android based, and don't have "ads." (They do highlight promoted content.) It's very easy to go directly to Netflix, ect. Even the remotes give the services dedicated buttons.
B2B sales are generally relationship based, even inside sales. I don’t see a chatbot developing a relationship with a human customer.