skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused you say a normal person doesn't want a smart tv but then on the next line say they do want a smart TV?

I assume you mean normal people don't like crappy smart TV experiences with slow and crappy apps but if they were smooth and fast and easy to use they would like them more? If so that is true of pretty much everything technology related :) Nobody likes using a slow, crappy computer that takes 5 minutes to load a webpage do they.

I think normal people love smart TVs they just wish they were better especially as they age a bit.

What would be fantastic is a modular smart TV where the screen has a standardised connection for a compute unit that you can replace for a much smaller cost than replacing the whole TV itself. If you're happy with your screen it is frustrating you need to buy a whole new TV just because the shitty SoC can't handle all the new stuff Netflix, Disney, etc. add to their apps over time.
Caffeine combined with L-Theanine does seem provide slight boost for focus to me.

That said, I think biggest mood/focus/energy difference (besides a nice workout which is also important) for me was getting vitamins and other micronutrients in order. I highly suggest you to do a blood test or two per year for all the common vitamins/micronutrients to see which you need to fix.

For men, I think it is especially important to get magnesium, vitamin D and zinc in order; lack of any will likely affect your testosterone levels negatively which will then screw you up in many more ways.

For example, way back I had critically low vitamin D resulting me in frequently getting sick and having periods of complete lack of energy; fixed that and I did not even get common cold for a long time, also no longer random days with no energy.

You shouldn't overly rely on nootropics, caffeine+l-theanine or other supplements to cover up base deficiencies with your micros.
Miles ahead how? It sucks. It looses wifi all the time and I have to do a crazy change on settings. I got tired and got a Fire TV Max. No more problems.
Books and e-books.
How can you possibly justify keeping even more of your money that you earn from profiting from the work of others, when people in need are freezing and starving? I know HN runs libertarian but this is just abhorrent.
The real issue, everywhere, is that the ordinary people are made believe those earning 100k are ultra rich, and should be taxed to death, and not those earning 10M+, or having inherited millions.
Quite frankly, you are hugely privileged to be earning at that level. The median average salary in the UK is just under £26k.

Also, when you are that income level, there are a number of tax benefits you can enjoy - for example the first £40k you put into your pension is before tax - so it effectively reduces your salary (for tax purposes) by £40k. SO if you are doing the sensible thing and putting money into a pension, the threshold you talk of is effectively at a £140k salary.
I can follow the rules every day of my life and still get murdered by selfish people like you, and you'll walk away without a scratch. And then you'll somehow find a way to make it my fault.
It works in the browser.

For example, my RSS feed is processed with XSL to provide a friendly landing page:

https://interconnected.org/home/feed

(view source, second line)
> it will mean older people accepting that the world has changed and they aren't worth their inflated salaries any more.

Kind of a sideline - but very worried to see this combination of ageism and the "we're hiring" in your profile.
Similar to what happens in Germany. But there are somewhat technical details to consider, which drive this tendency:

Both German and French have longer words statistically, so a translation of e.g. a 500 page English book might result in 650-700 pages after translation. Now publishers have to ponder the question wether that's still a "handy" book or if they should split it into two.

And now happens, what we see: books with 300-350 pages look a bit small, so they increase the font size, expand the whitespace and, voila: two "decent" sized books where they "accidentally" increased their revenue too, because they can sell two books.
For personal sites use classless CSS framework: https://github.com/dbohdan/classless-css

I have used water.css, simple.css and Tufte.css and all of them are great.
The declaration of a class and the incantation of public static void main is pure mystery to a beginning programmer.

This article misses the point, however. The problem is not writing your first hello world. The ceremony is not so much in the language itself but in the infrastructure. The verbosity of the language is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think Java back in the 90's started out actually quite decently, although from the get-go it had the verbosity. But at least it didn't have everything else yet that you're expected to know for any non-trivial program.

The first time the word "enterprise" appeared together with Java was the moment it went all downhill.
The problem I see is that these tax cuts only really help those who don't need the help, all while the lower classes still can't pay their energy bills/rent/food.

The issue is that most of the economy relies on people (including the lower classes) spending, which they aren't going to do if they already spent all their money on rent/bills. This in turn means businesses may go underwater if they aren't getting enough customers to stay afloat and operate profitably, leading to losses of jobs and less business for the companies that serve those businesses, and so on and so forth in a cascading failure. So even if you are selfish and say "fuck the poor", it's a bad idea because your ability to stay rich relies on there being "poor" people who spend their money at your establishment. Not to mention that with extreme poverty comes crime, something that ultimately costs all of us money.

It's like "tricke-down economics", except it trickles up and unlike the former, this one actually does happen for real and we're already seeing the effects of it.

I say this as someone who otherwise is in favour of tax cuts and sees taxation as theft, but that's a discussion for another day. But if you're going to cut taxes to help with cost of living and can't cut them all, then focus your efforts where it actually helps. The ones who will actually see a non-trivial increase in their income due to this cut are those who already didn't need any help.
Truss and Kwarteng are really fast! As emptywheel said, usually it takes conservatives a matter of years to create the financial crisis they must then intervene to fix.
Fedora mostly, I come from a RHEL background.
On creator focused networks like YouTube, tiktok or instagram your recommendations get reset if you accidentally open a link to a video or channel you marked as “Don’t recommend this X.”.

If you really want to nuke them from your feed the easiest way is to report them. Might be ethical questionable but the 99,9X% of reports get ignored anyway so why not use it as feature.
I second this motion!
So you think 1% of people shouldering 28% of the cost of public services is fair?
That's ... not true.

Wage theft is one of the most common forms of crime in the US, and it's widespread, including wage theft from farm workers.

(Indeed, farm employers may be violating a lot of laws - https://www.epi.org/publication/federal-labor-standards-enfo... .)
In simple terms, the Bank of England and UK Gov are pursuing conflicting economic policies, BoE trying to take money out of circulation through hiking up interest rates, whilst UK Gov is putting money into circulation by proposing massive debt funded tax cuts.

The obvious incoherency of this then led to the markets losing confidence in the UK economy, crashing the value of the pound, which in turn makes the planned UK debt funded tax cut plan even more expensive than it already needed to, leading to even more loss of confidence.

We are now in cascading crisis, from which there are no good option, only worse and terrible ones.
The guide is aimed at non-tech people. Using any kind of framework is missing the point.
Exactly this happens to me as well.
MPV is great on windows too. It'd be nice if the interface was more discoverable, but the responsiveness and format support are amazing.
Someone is going to die in one of his stunts. It’s inevitable.
well the green propaganda is a business al gore predicted we would be dead by now and the only outcome is that he is a millionaire now.

People love to live off the fear they instill onto other people.

Nuclear was the only way to transition to something cleaner later. but green party backed by lobbies ranging from russia, usa, oil and gas made the common people believe that there was a way to go full renewable in the 20's... to be honest those last years have been sickening, looking at youtube videos of charlatan commenting on green energy, co-workers, boss hell even blackrock/nasdaq virtue signaling and retweeting those crooks, pushing this narrative into our schools and our youth to build an army of evangelists of a green world where china-made solar panels with a shelf life of 10-20years would be a solution to global energy while at the same time undermining nuclear... it will be remembered as a dark age in mankind and when people in the future will reflect at our generation it will be with shame and I am pretty sure they wouldn't be able to understand why we made those choices and why they led to a global war.
You're starting with an assumption that right-wing governments are good for economies. Let's ignore that dubious assumption and instead look at the actual policy.

Truss's administration is giving tax cuts to the wealthy and paying for it by borrowing. The markets know that trickle-down economics is nonsense and these tax cuts won't boost UK's economy enough to cover the enormous amount of debt required to pay for them.
OQC to launch quantum computer in colocation data center
open source alternative that i've been using: https://github.com/exelban/stats
Tech billionaires lost $315B in 2022 and it genuinely doesn’t matter
I will just drop this link here:

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/samsungads/
> Due to the insidious tax policy of withdrawing the personal allowance when income reaches £100K

The affect of removing that doesn't seem to be that major, with the figures [1] appearing to work out at almost 1.5% less tax for those on £100k, and a little over 2.5% less tax for those on £200k -- hardly a huge decrease in the tax burden for those people.

[1]: https://blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/8/files/2022/09/28sep...
Why does the comparison with renewables matter if people don't build those renewables either?
So a group of developers gets their app and accounts banned because they violated the terms of service of a major platform. They built a third-party client for Instagram, fully aware that this use-case is a violation of the terms they agreed to. Now they complain because the obvious happened. Not only that, on Twitter they complain about Apple removing their app and not a dozen of similar but different apps.

All larger issues regarding infrastructure providers and user rights aside (and that’s a big swipe), this is childishly silly. It’s the equivalent of stealing some merchandise from a big box store, getting caught and claiming that it should be okay because “everyone’s doing it”. No, it is not okay.

And I say that as someone who fundamentally despises Facebook/Meta. Effective regulation needs to happen resulting in a different set of incentives driving actors like Meta. However, unnecessary stunts like this will only ever cause a storm in a glass of water.

Stunts like this are also intellectually dishonest – they confuse, twist and blend different issues together just to try to amplify their outrage potential until they dissolve into meaninglessness. If the developers are actually serious about this, I’m at a loss for words. Then again, maybe that’s today’s social media in a nutshell.
My parents still use all the smart TV features in their 4+ year old LG C8. They don't have any streaming boxes, I tried to give them my old Apple TV a year ago but they didn't like the remote (don't blame them for that, it is garbage).

They use Netflix, BBC iPlayer, YouTube and the Disney+ apps daily. No complaints other than when the wifi sometimes goes out but that isn't a fault of the TV.
Our government announced new economic policies that have been judged extremely harshly by everyone. The public perception of them is also severely negative which increases the risk of the alternative party gaining control next time around.

I really hoped the new leader would be the one with an economics background instead of the friendly optimist. Navigating out of brexit and covid is difficult and the leader sets the tone for how we're going to approach it.

The market deciding the UK is financially unsound seems a legitimate response to our strategy of copy the wise ostrich. Hopefully the people who chose Truss have made enough of a loss this week to reconsider their priorities.
un-costed tax cuts and an open ended promise to pay for the spike in energy prices spooked investors and caused a run on the pound and (worse) a collapse in the value of UK debt. This threatened to cause a run similar to the 2008 US mortgage backed securities crash because a lot of investors (including many if not most UK pension funds) used their UK debt as collatoral for more loans. If the price falls to far too fast they have to sell their UK debt at distressed prices to meet margin calls and this drives the price down further. The Bank of England has stepped in to prop up the market by printing more money (which means more inflation).

Interest rates are now expected to triple to 7% to cope with this fiscal event and as most UK home owners borrow money on revolving short term loans to buy houses many people are looking at a $1,000-$2,000 / month increase in interest payments and a 20% collapse in the value of property.

Most major businesses have gone into crisis mode (hiring freeze, paused expansion plans) which will have its own knock on consequences. If we're very very lucky it won't spread to other countries.
Is there any statistics on whether women drink more green tea than men? It certainly seems that way.
Miles ahead in what sense? Swiss army knife of shit you dont need is sometimes inferior to just having a small PC if it suits you better. Feel like itd enable more control and privacy
Personally, I love cheesy dialogue in games like this.
Mainstream pundits like... Dan Hodges?

We're trying to boost the economy by cutting taxes on the group of people who are most likely just to stuff the extra money into investments rather than spending it? Great idea.
Warning: no author is Italian.

Which means that nobody knows what they are talking about.

;-)
I don’t understand your logic? It sounds like you’re saying you changed jobs for less money so that your marginal tax rate would be lower even though your net income would be lower. In theory you could also change jobs to something that pays £125k where your marginal tax rate would be back down to 40%, though obviously you’d need to find such a job. You specifically wrote ‘marginal’ so I don’t think you’re confused between marginal and effective tax rates so are you suggesting that the 60p rate did not provide sufficient incentives for you to try to get paid more? That would maybe make sense but I think it can also be useful to think of pay raises on a logarithmic scale rather than a linear one (as in an equal amount of raise-worthiness would be expected to lead to a proportionally larger raise in absolute terms if your starting pay is higher), which would mean an x% raise at a higher marginal tax rate may still be worth it if your starting pay is higher. But then another common model is log utility for money which cancels out that effect.

It’s fair enough if you want to work at the startup but this seems like a strange rationalisation. I agree that the 60% marginal rate from the personal allowance reduction is kinda silly.
> I am paid to write code not sit in 10 meetings a day. If I raise the issue everyone gets all pouty.

Then it's time to move on. This is not a way mature adults should be handling such a situation.

A passive-aggressive reaction isn't mature either though, so maybe this is mutual and your company and you are actually perfectly in tune.
Do you have ADHD? I don't know if there's actual evidence whether it's related, but I often hear this from people with ADHD
I had something similar, I thought Arduino IDE was crazy slow, but then switched laptops and it was crazy fast. Not that the new laptop was more expensive or a lot newer, just different.

I blame windows stuff I guess, it's definitely not just CPU power
If you're ok with a video format, I'd really recommend the TLDR News UK. (https://www.youtube.com/c/TLDRNews) It's fairly accessible but not dumbed down. The last 4 or so videos relate to the problems since Truss. If you want to dig deeper they also have daily summaries and podcasts diving deeper into specific issues.
The bigger problem is the energy-price guarantee that Truss has announced that will put a ceiling on fuel price for consumers, with the difference born by the UK treasury - estimated outflow is more than 100 Billion pounds. This outflow is planned to be funded by borrowing, which has resulted in a weaker pound.
...and Kotlin :)
Yes I do pay plenty into my pension.

It's not my "privilege" to earn at that level. I was born into an average economic background. I worked really hard at school and university, and then over a period of seventeen years, I worked really hard in responsible jobs.

If all people from average backgrounds took the attitude that only "privileged" people get good careers, then unfortunately it would be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Luckily there are plenty of aspirational people in the UK looking to better their family's situation by advancing their careers.
That sounds very unhealthy :) I try to remind myself that these are slightly dangerous things and I should stick to one per day.
A little to coarse, since OP asked about the UK. But Obama already acknowledged that the US will never pay back all their debt, "even if they get 10% GDP increase per year for every single year" if I am not mistaken about that non-verbatim quote.
tl;dr: humans produce a different odour when under pressure – and dogs can sniff it out

Amazing result
I feel like the common case, especially for new HTML devs, is to use one website.

And when they get more experienced, they'll probably want to migrate that site to a new host (for example my site was bbkane.github.io before I moved it to bbkane.com), which will break absolute links to the first (now down) domain. Yes, best practice is to set up a redirect from old to new anyway, but that's the kind of thing someone doing this for the first time doesn't think about.

So there's definitely a case for beginners using relative links. And it's less repetitive to type!
Calling include on someone's elses code is not programming nor ops no matter what lies you tell yourself.

And we use CI for 12 years and yes, our node definitions can also fit in your utterly idiotic metric

Want to tweet "our app is so small you can just npm get it" next ?
Premium customers are premium ad targets.
I have spent a lot of time banging my head against more complex prompts in SD. Trying to get it to understand separation of objects and composition is my biggest issue with this otherwise awesome tool.

It took me a lot of tries and about half an hour to generate a blue lemon on a (blue) marble countertop instead of a yellow lemon on a blue marble countertop.

I spent longer than I'd like to admit trying to get an image of a human running from a horde of zombies. No matter what I did I always got a zombie leading a charging horde of zombies.

I've completely given up on trying to describe layout of a complex scene, but that can be solved with img2img.

It is sometimes very difficult to get characters to interact with objects or each other in natural ways. And whether it works or not can be unpredictable. You can consistently get very common interactions like people dancing or riding a bicycle right. But good luck trying to generate say, a photograph of a man poking a sheep in the ear. Ok, I tried that one[0] and after a few minutes and about 16 generated images I actually got a few that were sort of accurate.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/11fc2wj
Do you... change your tires? Or just get a brand new car every year to avoid the hassle of dealing with car shops?

Problem with Smart TVs is they become obsolete super fast software wise. And basically, unsafe to connect to the internet in a few years.

Most TVs have CI+ ports. I can easily imagine an upgradable "smart module". Just buy a new compatible one (which, effectively could just connect for power and HDMI) and get the brand new stuff.

There is no bubble, smart TVs are a consumerist trap and it will require government intervention to fix because nobody has any incentives otherwise.
No classes means that you just write plain html. I think non tech people could deal with adding a single script tag and having everything just work.
wind is an intermittent energy at best. a turbine lasts at best 25 years then you can't recycle it. there is nothing you can renew in wind energy. oh and wind is changing so you might build it somewhere with a lot of wind just to find out its not there anymore a few years down. not even talking about the visual pollution it creates.

money is not an issue when building energy such as nuclear. you'd need to price all the outcomes a nuclear reactor would bring to your economy and trust me no industry will want to rely on wind to meet their production goals.
Seeing modern day "best in class" is a great way to become pessimistic about progress, you see the best of now but don't realize it's the worst of "soon". In 8 years you'll reverse course completely based on machining automation, and in 11 we'll have true AGI.
I thought this was quite a good summary from Jonathan Pie, even if it’s meant to be comedy… https://youtu.be/w-V5FVludFk
yes this is what led us to the current war... relying on other tech.
> One way to stop this is to raise interest rates and pull pounds out of circulation but the government is terrified of popping the real estate bubble.

I'm pretty sure i'm being naive here but... why?

House ownership has become a huge problem for recent generations in the UK, I still haven't engaged with the market because it's so hard to get a foot in the door unless you have masses of disposable income. Popping the bubble would help a lot of people in the UK to begin a more healthy long term financial life (i.e compared to pouring a huge chunk of your income into the pockets of landlords instead of a house you end up owning).

Is it that at a market scale there would be repercussions outweighing the obvious benefits to citizens? Or are they just protecting the rich who want to maintain the value of their "assets".
I see a lot of negative comments here, but is Adobe really that bad? Photoshop isn't a perfect application and the creative cloud bulk it comes with can be a bit irritating, but it's still an incredibly powerful market-leading application. The AI editing features they've added in recent years have been great and I've also found their iPad version of the application to be surprisingly good.

I guess what I'm saying is that while Figma might get some additional bulk I don't think it's fair to assume the product will stagnate under Adobe? They're paying a lot for Figma in an attempt to secure their market position, given that I doubt they plan to push people away from the product. I understand the apprehension, but it seems a little premature to me?