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Sometimes firmware updates are necessary. I've got a Tcl tv that had HDR issues out of the box that were fixed by an updated firmware.
I think your grammar is excellent and would never have guessed that English is not your native language.

Code coverage is a good metric to get people to start writing tests, but not a good metric to focus on. People may feel encouraged when their tests increase coverage from say, say 20% to 25%, so they write more tests. Though increasing coverage is not the end goal. For example, in Java you have setters and getters and writing tests for such methods just to increase coverage is useless busywork.

Instead, the goal is for tests to prevent bugs from sneaking into the software. Since many bugs only manifest themselves in strange special cases, tests that prevent such bugs must trigger those special cases. Suppose the website crashes if two users who share the same ip refreshes the page at a special stage in the signup flow. A test to prevent that bug must setup the same circumstances and emulate the same user interactions. Before the bug is fixed the test will fail, afterwards it will succeed. Such tests are incredibly useful but also takes lots of effort to write.
I worked for Samsung for ten years and will never buy a Samsung product. It's pretty simple, their product support is shit. I will defend the people I worked with in Semiconductor to my dying breath but nope out on the consumer products like they're lava.

Their UI/UX is also pretty atrocious across the board, so I can imagine what their TVs are like.

I have a big 2022 Sony Bravia smart TV and while there are some suggestions on the home page, I would not call them intrusive at all.
Looks like a remarkable competitor? Wonder how it compares.

I wonder how far, if ever, we are from a successful e-ink phone or laptop. I know some exist today but I wonder if they could ever gain size-able market share.
> You have to find it first.

It would be very visible on an average sonar. (An average sonar is $500 or so.)
> Samsung (Dacor) discloses this behavior in their fridge manual; it says it will mesh with Samsung TVs to better target ads.

...seriously?

...we collectively did this to ourselves. We live in the science fiction dystopian future we deserve.
Open Wi-Fi networks are a thing of the past.

I've been to two medical facilities and a large regional hospital in the last week where there were open wifi networks with no portals. My apartment building operates an open wifi network for guests so we don't have to bother giving out passwords to visitors. An airport I visited last month has wide open wifi. A see ads on transit buses all the time stating that the bus has wifi. I suspect that is wide open because the transit agency didn't want to deal with tech support.

Open wifi is far from a thing of the past.
It might mean "reinforce this argument/provide evidence for this", per https://constantrenewal.com/steel-man

From the context, it might also mean "rebut this as strongly as possible", "criticize this" or "defuse this argument".

It's unfamiliar wording to me as well. Does anyone have a rough etymology of "steelman" as a verb?
Besides what others have mentioned (the entertainment value in reading), I think there are at least a couple other things at play.

1. When asked about a particular thing from a particular non-fiction book (or lecture, or podcast), one might not remember the text itself, but one may have internalized the point without remember where it's from. I know somewhere along the way I learned how to write a structured program, and there might be certain sources I remember being useful, but a lot of what I learned I couldn't off the top of my head point to a specific reference.

2. In a large amount of my reading, I don't read to absorb knowledge, I read to remember the reference for later. I don't need to try to absorb a lot of knowledge if I can easily pull up a book, web page, or document on my computer later.

3. Most facts I can recall off the top of my head are usually not things I read in a book, they are things I read in multiple books (or read in a book and later heard in a lecture or podcast). That doesn't mean that books don't work.

4. The style of the author can also come into play. Some authors are capable writers - they do their research and put together a coherent book - but some authors just excel at writing scenes that are memorable. David Mccullough was one such writer - compared to other non-fiction books I've read, I feel like I am able to remember more details from his writings than other similar writings. I think St. Augustine is also in this category - he spent a large portion of his life studying rhetoric, how to just keep people interested in what he was saying. Whether one agrees with Augustine, anecdotally most people I've talked to about his Confessions don't have the same problem as the author has in his discussions about The Selfish Gene. But I think writers that can write at that level are rare.
As far as I know our brains are mostly unchanged for thousands of years. So any novel ideas anyone has are a result of standing on the shoulders of giants, idea-wise and technology-wise, so it seems rather silly to give any individual the lion's share of the credit for any new idea of any kind, anywhere.
The principal sin, IMHO, is that JavaScript technically has only one number type, double. But doubles are pretty slow, particularly if they are used as array indexes, so JS engines do a ton of numerical analysis (range analysis) to determine when it is safe to do integer math. That reasoning is extremely tricky and I've made gazongas amounts of bugs myself. (I'm the original author of the SimplifiedLoweringPass, which has evolved significantly since I last worked on that part of the code--circa 2015). Unfortunately static analysis of any kind really doesn't help...the implementation language (C++) isn't really at fault...because the bugs are manifesting at the compiler IR level, i.e. how it reasons about JS values in the representation of JS code.
My mind immediately went to Forster as well:

>They wondered if such devices would seal off the wonders of technology into a black box: “effortless, opaque, and therefore unquestioned by consumers.”

rings true to me. I think this was and still is a valid concern. At the very least it's a real trade-off. I almost get the feeling that the author in the OP looks down on the knowledge needed to understand machines/technology since it can be replaced by a button. That misses the point entirely though. Taking technology for granted makes you a mindless consumer in my opinion. That's why we're so instinctively disgusted by the population in The Machine Stops. They don't exist in any real sense; they're just the exit nodes of the machine's functions.
>I hate it when movies look like cheap sitcoms on modern TVs

That has nothing to do with "TVs" in general and more the software smoothing settings that are on by default. Properly configured (takes literally minutes or less one time) using a website like rtings.com for the optimal settings, a TV will look better than a similar quality projector every time, and in greater lighting situations. There's a reason why projectors aren't popular and it's not because people forget about them. Movies on my OLED TV look incredible, better than a cinema frankly.
Buttered bread, cheese and tomato, fry on pan.
I agree with you, but I wish there were more effort from big-name directors or producers to crowd fund their film or series.

Imagine for example something like the Expanse being crowd funded. That's about $3.5 - $5 MM per episode - a huge amount. And then it takes a year or more to see the content. And the Expanse wasn't really that expensive in the scale of things.

Unfortunately, until a better model emerges, the media juggernauts do serve a function in the marketplace as financiers.
The main reason I stick with Amazon is that it has the best integration with my local library, which is where I get 90% of my books. Like most libraries, they are OverDrive based.

I can check out a book from the library on my phone and have it appear wirelessly on my Kindle moments later. Last I checked all non-Kindle devices require you to basically download an .epub file onto your computer and then sideload it with a cable to check out a library book, which is too much hassle for something I do several times a week.
That breaks the built in chromecast, right (since the TV is the one fetching the stream), but I suppose you could plug in a regular chromecast dongle if that matters to you.
> Any company with a huge number of customers is going to have a lot of headcount related to dealing with customers.

Unless you are Google, which is then again where a lot of people in engineering can get confused as most companies don't hate their users quite as much as Google ;P.
> Or a citation that the OP participated, which is unreasonable of you to ask?

HN guidelines state we must assume people are telling the truth. Funny I didn't get that assumption. Just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Also, it isn't really "charity": they force people to worship their god by withholding their aid until they do so. There is a long history behind this. That's largely why they are despised.

But seriously: if you believe 100% of the people on the internet, especially when they are enraged and trying to prove a point, I feel bad for you.
Yep, I only ever use the LG remote for turning off the display when I want to listen to music with a blank screen.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.airlive.net/breaking-two-planes-collided-on-grou.... Thanks!
Hmm I like just buying 4k displays with no smart features at all. 65 sceptre works great.. is just a display (does need a sound bar as built in speakers are poor).

No need to fight against your device IMO.
It's far heavier than I'd prefer, yes.

However, I've got my own box colo'd, so I can give plenty of resources to the VM it runs in, and it seems to hold up just fine in operation.

Realistically, the bulk of my traffic is to other users on the same homeserver, so I'm less likely to notice sync/federation issues. A few people do talk across different servers, though, and would bug me if something was broken. It seems to be fine, just very CPU and RAM heavy for what a chat server ought to be using in my view of things.

I won't claim it's perfect, but it does provide for a robust and modern-ish chat service that's not reliant on the good will and data monetization of major tech companies.
Yes that's my impression as well. They remove it from the catalog, but if you bought you can still see it.
Matrix: Third Room Tech Preview [video]
$600k was the off-the-shelf market value of the GPU time spent. They got this time at a much lower rate (according to the founder himself) and for the PR and fame they got, that money is ridiculously little.

Somewhat tangentially, I speculate that crowd-sourced training will become a thing.
"I narrowed it down to the 85-inch versions"

Lol
Many of these scaling patterns are logarithmic with respect to data size. You can only double the dataset size so many times that it’s really not clear the scaling will continue.
Ya I think the other comment in this thread from a figma member about penpot performance issues from using SVGs is interesting and lines up with what you said. I'll have to give it a proper try, at easy ones it seemed fine but didn't think to really stress test it fully.
having read the article, you could sub 'enduring' for 'perfect' and maybe have a more accurate title
I wish the article went into detail about what hardware they used for each server, what was their disaster mitigation plan, and other considerations that you don't need to worry about with paying for a cloud provider.
Always Listening Commands, Voice Activation and Hotword Detection
Fydetab Duo – another open source Linux tablet
QQ: how do you replace the ISP router - my cable provider clT out refused to give me the PPP / etc details or I have to go find an RPi with adsl io.

I guess I can solve it but any pointers gratefully rec d
https://youtu.be/X5lihbVbNQA
I’m from Hungary, and I have to tell you, you are WAY off with those salaries.

As a senior software engineer, you can make maybe $35k a year, before taxes, if you are good. You can make it $50k if you are very good.

2 years ago I was making $23k (yearly, before taxes), before I moved to Canada and started working at Amazon for $170k usd.

Europe, especially the eastern parts of europe has an extremely cheap workforce.
I think it depends a lot on what you mean by "better output"

DALL-E is very good at conceptually representing complex prompt. Something like "a bear with a diving mask surfing in the ocean, a pelican is sitting on its shoulder", DALL-E will immediately produce coherent results, while SD requires lot of prompt tuning, and sometimes it's even impossible to get it to represent some concepts (I haven't tested this particular prompt tho)

SD is good for producing "artistic" images if that makes any sense

edit: ok I tried the "surfing bear" prompt with DALL-E 2 and SD and the results are consistent with my point, I put the raw prompt without tuning, and cherry picked the best image out of 4 with both models, here is what I got :

DALLE-2: https://labs.openai.com/s/Q9824QOfXln4r9FLFNM3v9v1

SD: https://imgur.com/a/czcMgiC

For SD, even by tuning the prompt I wasn't able to get the diving mask or the bird on the shoulder
No actually he links to old research which is becoming relevant now. I mean the main beef in this article is that LeCun used to dismiss certain ideas and now he's presenting them as his own ideas. So there is value in revisiting old theoretical research and turning it into practical applications now that we finally have enough GPU power to do so.
> the disagreement here is over the definition of literature

Deeply, but though we can make distinction between a modern best seller and Brian's grammatically incorrect graffiti, "Romanes eunt domus,"[1], in essence they are both literature, even if the latter is fictional and framed within the larger contemporary story, because Brian wrote a message representative of some language.

Literature is defined by writing, and writing is defined by symbols representing language. Always given less emphasis than the ancient cave art found in caves all over the world are the abstract symbols that very often accompany the graphic depictions of animals. For all we know some of those symbols may mean, "this tastes good," and regardless of being unable to decipher them, they could still be the oldest extant literature[2] so long as they could represent language and tell a story, no matter how primitive a story.

Before the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Mayan pictographs were deciphered, there was no question that they had specific meaning behind them. Though in the strictest sense, pictography is not an alphabet, it still conveys specific messages in some once spoken language. In my opinion, if there are any abstract symbols that represent even the most primitive message, if it's clear there is even some vague attempt at communication, then it will still broadly fall under the category of literature, regardless of ever being deciphered.

While ultimately I agree that the epic of Gilgamesh is the earliest extant high, advanced, or complex literature, I think whether a written story still exists or not is an arbitrary distinction. The fact that Gilgamesh exists in the literary form that it does necessarily means earlier examples of high literature once existed but are unknown and likely lost. Between Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides there were over 300 plays written of which 33 survive. That the missing plays no longer exist should not diminish the fact that these were, in fact, written and were undoubtedly literature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_ite_domum

[2] https://www.openculture.com/2019/03/40000-year-old-symbols-f... note: Though von Petzinger herself clarifies in her TED Talk that the common ancient symbols are not writing, I think she's hedging for some reason (probably professional caution) contradicting what her own research shows and statements she makes immediately previously.
Ask HN: How do you write a “Terms of Service” for your startup?
Having a ToS and Privacy Policy is table stakes before you can start accepting payments from customers. With GDPR, CCPA, and all of the rest it is really difficult to create a simple ToS that will satify your customers and keep up with all of the relevant online laws.

There are services out there to help with this (Termly, etc) but they all charge monthly fees just to host these documents and they make it hard to self-host.

How can a bootstrapped startup with no access to legal advice put together a barebones but meaningful ToS/PP without spending too much money?
In theory, yes. In practice, the wind and the currents make it extremely hard to put the load in a vicinity of the pipe at 80 m depth.
They should just use Kubernetes™.
Intercepted Calls from Russian Soldiers
I have 10+ YoE, and I'm currently working in ML at Big Tech. I regularly get contacted by recruiters offering 100+ $/hr contracts unsolicited. I'm pretty sure those are bottom of the barrel rates and I would be able to get much better rates if I was actively looking.

250k a year in the current market doesn't sound like a lot.
No, it’s quite common. Planes collide on the ground all the time, at airports all over the world. Normally minor “oops” in ground handling, by the pilots but also can be pushers and such who are ferrying around airplanes. Runway entrance and exits are particularly hazardous and are marked that way.
And that's exactly what we saw with 99.999999998% of VCs and investors that approached us. This news is about securing the funding to build something that is remarkably challenging and make it happen fast. Our bet on SVG, like the Figma employee above says, is at the core of our ethos, but requires extra work, this is the type of commitment you should expect from Penpot.
But.. uncommon enough that people should care about it world wide each time it happens? If this happened at my nearest airport, I would expect to see it in the local paper. I definitely wouldn't expect people more than a couple hundred miles away from me to hear about it.
Microsoft’s discontinuing SwiftKey on iOS next week
Nobody makes them like we did when I was a kid.

We toasted a slice of bread halfway. Then we cut it parallel to the face, from the top almost through to the bottom. We opened it up, put Velveeta cheese in there, and mustard, pepper, garlic powder. We closed it up and toasted it the rest of the way.

When I was a kid, I liked it, but now I don't like grilled cheese sandwiches (that way or any other way).
Really? That's absolute madness. Any more info?
It's the opposite of strawman.

A strawman argument is a weak argument to justify a position you disagree with; its purpose is rhetorical: It's meant to make your position look strong to onlookers (and perhaps to yourself).

A steelman argument is the strongest possible argument you can come up with to justify a position you disagree with; its meant to help you find the truth by taking seriously the people who disagree with you.

OP is using the word slightly differently than normal, in that the position OP disagrees with here is, "Docusign needs 7,400 employees". A strawman would be, "Docusign needs 7,400 employees because it needs to show the stock market that it's a serious company" -- weak and easy to demonstrate that it's stupid. A steelman would be, "Docusign actually needs that many sales people and customer service reps."
I wonder what sort of hit to their userbase they'll experience when it finally happens for real. The internet is unbearable without ad blocking.
That just happens to work at a depth of 80 meters.
There are few things more chilling than certain forums on the Internet.
I was really hoping for a new Oasis in this announcement! I currently use a Voyage, a long-since-discontinued Kindle that was a hybrid of the Paperwhite and the Oasis, with a symmetric design and haptic page turn "buttons" on the left and right bezels.

With the arrival of the Paperwhite Signature Edition I'm wondering if Amazon is going to phase out the Oasis line entirely, just as they did with Voyage. It can't be selling that well as virtually every feature is now as good or better on the Paperwhite line.
I also have a Sony Smart TV.

It is ok but "highlighted content" are ads and I am quite sure Android TV is sending every bit of info it can harvest from anywhere to google.
I've been using a projector in my bedroom because I do occasionally want to watch something while laying in bed, but don't generally like a TV in the room.

Potential problems, all fixable:

Can't see it during the day or when using the lights.

Had to run power and data to the ceiling.

Lower resolution for the price.

Can't use the wall for anything else or need to install a screen; paint choice a potential issue (bad color, too glossy). (Also need a wall without windows that is large enough.)

That said, the pros vastly outweigh the cons for me and projectors have gotten cheaper and better in the near decade since I installed mine.
This is great. I really love all my Matisse generations. On the other hand, I find DALL-E to be uniformly bad at recreating Edward Hopper. Almost none of the generations capture the spirit of his work. It's especially obvious when you run the same Hopper prompts on Stable Diffusion. I wonder why.
They don't have 7,400 engineers, if that is what you were thinking.
That'd be a downgrade from my TV from over a decade ago.
It's 2022 and recent projector models are also joining the smart internet-connected advertising hellfest now.
People that choose to make a lifestyle of it should be dealt with forcefully. And no I'm not saying to beat them up although I'm not against rounding them up and dropping them in the wilderness just like a racoon. It's not a permanent solution but deters the lifestyle and is much cheaper than rehabilitating people that don't want it.
This guy and his weird AI feud nobody cares about.

Why do people keep upvoting his stuff?
I never liked chrome because it required me to set a proxy via command line arguments or system wide. Never understood why they don’t give me an option like firefox within the settings to set a proxy, but at the same time chrome allowed *extensions* to set proxies.
Why is this a problem? The purpose of the pay range is not to help you in your personal negotiation. It is to inform you of the going price in certain markets. If you think $60k is too low, find a different business or a different labor market to sell to. If you think $225k is too low, same thing.

If you want to maximize your own income, then you should obtain offers from competing buyers and pit them against each other.
The engine looks really nice, and considering its all web technologies its even more impressive. It's hard to grasp the networking as user, since its all hidden, but using Matrix is kick ass. This is a good foundation for the future of metaverse.
You're probably in the minority with that opinion. Apple UX is wildly renowned for being great and Apple TV is no worse than any of the competitors. The TV input interface is just awkward in general but being able to use an iPhone to automatically fill in passwords, authenticate purchases, or just use as a second remote is smooth as butter. It's another example of how Apple products are better together within the ecosystem. But even if you don't have an iPhone, the newest remote is extremely good. One of the best products they've made in recent years.
. . . and ducting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gO01pyv24
What happens after, does the plane still fly? Are planes engineered to withstand this?